Informing Inclusive Urbanism

Penn Institute for Urban Research 2016–2017 Annual Report 2 Penn Institute for Urban Research 2016–2017 ANNUAL REPORT 3

ABOUT PENN4 IUR CURRENT1 RESEARCH INITIATIVES EXPERT5 & FACULTY CONVENINGS 5PUBLIC PROGRAMS8 A MESSAGE FROM THE PROVOST & VICE PROVOST FOR RESEARCH 06 LAND FOR PUBLIC GOOD IN EMERGING ECONOMIES 12 UNITED STATES–JAPAN GRASSROOTS EXCHANGE PROGRAM: 52 PENN IUR 13TH ANNUAL URBAN LEADERSHIP AWARDS 60 CITIZEN PARTICIPATION IN COMMUNITY BUILDING POST-DISASTER A MESSAGE FROM PENN IUR’S CO-DIRECTORS 08 URBAN FISCAL STABILITY AND SUSTAINABILITY GOING FORWARD 14 FEDERAL RESERVE BANK OF PHILADELPHIA CONFERENCE: 61 & ADVISORY BOARD CHAIR SYMPOSIUM ON REMOTELY SENSED MEASUREMENT FOR A 53 REINVENTING OUR COMMUNITIES: TRANSFORMING OUR ECONOMIES TRANSFORMING OUR ECONOMIES FOR OPPORTUNITY 15 RESILIENT AND SUSTAINABLE URBAN FUTURE URBAN TALKS WITH MICHAEL NUTTER 62 HOUSING AFFORDABILITY AND FINANCING SYSTEMS 15 PENN IUR PENSIONS WORKING GROUP ROUNDTABLES 54 PENN IUR PUBLIC INTEREST SERIES 63 INNOVATION AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP IN HIGHER EDUCATION 16 THE RISE OF THE CITY IN CHINA 54

SUPPORTING SUSTAINABLE ENERGY ACROSS THE ASIA PACIFIC 17 URBANIZATION, URBAN HOUSING, AND HOUSING FINANCE IN INDONESIA 55

URBANIZATION, MIGRATION, AND DEMOGRAPHY 55

PENN’S HUMANITIES, URBANISM, AND DESIGN (H+U+D) INITIATIVE 56

TRANSLATIONAL RESEARCH: TEXTS INSTRUCTIONAL SUPPORT PENN IUR PEOPLE PUBLICATIONS18 & DISSEMINATION 32 76 84 THE CITY IN THE 21ST CENTURY BOOK SERIES 20 GOVERNING THE FRAGMENTED METROPOLIS, CHRISTINA ROSAN 34 PENN IUR UNDERGRADUATE URBAN RESEARCH COLLOQUIUM 78 PENN IUR FACULTY FELLOWS AND EXECUTIVE COUNCIL 86

SOCIAL SCIENCE RESEARCH NETWORK URBAN RESEARCH eJOURNAL 24 IMMIGRATION AND METROPOLITAN REVITALIZATION IN THE 36 MASTER OF URBAN SPATIAL ANALYTICS 79 PENN IUR SCHOLARS 90 UNITED STATES, DOMENIC VITIELLO AND THOMAS SUGRUE URBAN LINK 26 PENN IUR URBAN DOCTORAL ACTIVITIES 82 PENN IUR EMERGING SCHOLARS 92 ATLAS FOR THE END OF THE WORLD, RICHARD WELLER 38 PENN IUR BRIEFS 28 PENN IUR FELLOWS 93 ENTREPRENEURSHIP & INNOVATION IN CONNECTICUT’S 40 SPECIAL REPORTS AND JOURNAL ARTICLES 29 HIGHER EDUCATION SYSTEM, CONNECTICUT WORKING PENN IUR VISITING SCHOLARS 95 GROUP ON HIGHER EDUCATION GLOBAL URBAN COMMONS 30 PENN IUR AFFILIATED DOCTORAL STUDENTS 95 EDUCATION REFORM IN THE POST-NCLB ERA, 42 ENERGY SMART COMMUNITIES INITIATIVE- 31 MATTHEW STEINBERG AND RAND QUINN PENN IUR ADVISORY BOARD 96 KNOWLEDGE SHARING PLATFORM THE NEW URBAN CRISIS, RICHARD FLORIDA 44 PENN IUR EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE 97 HABITAT III EXHIBITION: KNOWLEDGE FOR AN URBANIZING WORLD 31 INFORMED SECURITIZATION, SUSAN WACHTER 46 PENN IUR DONORS AND FUNDERS 98

A MIDTERM REPORT: WILL HABITAT III MAKE A DIFFERENCE? 48 PENN IUR STAFF AND CONTACT INFORMATION 99 EUGÉNIE BIRCH

1LOOKING AHEAD

Back cover bottom photo courtesy of Bob Jagendorf, via Flickr. About Penn IUR

Penn IUR is a university-wide body that As the global population becomes increasingly urban, among scholars and policymakers across disciplines understanding cities is vital to informed decision- to address the needs of an increasingly urbanized informs decision-making and public policy making and public policy implementation at the local, society. By providing a forum for collaborative on issues of sustainable urban growth and national, and international levels. Affiliated with all 12 scholarship and instruction at Penn and beyond, schools of the University of Pennsylvania and with Penn IUR stimulates research and engages with urban development based on multi-disciplinary the world of practice, Penn IUR fosters collaboration practitioners and policymakers to inform urban policy. research, instruction, and outreach. This annual report details Penn IUR’s accomplishments from July 2016 through June 2017 and looks ahead to future initiatives. 6 Penn Institute for Urban Research 2016–2017 ANNUAL REPORT 7

A MESSAGE FROM WENDELL PRITCHETT The Provost & Vice Provost for Research Provost; Presidential Professor of Law and Education, Penn Law

The Penn Institute for Urban Research generates DAWN BONNELL powerful new knowledge that makes a tangible Vice Provost for Research; Henry Robinson Towne Professor of Engineering and Applied Science, impact on urban environments around the world. School of Engineering and Applied Science In doing so, it exemplifies the University’s core values of inclusion, innovation, and impact.

As inequality grows more extreme, the Penn IUR also works closely with other university-wide hubs to generate disciplinary conversations. The Undergraduate Urban Research world warms, and demographics and knowledge and connections: for example, this year’s collaboration with Colloquium and Master of Urban Spatial Analytics, along with technology evolve, it becomes ever more Perry World House in support of its inaugural research theme, “Global numerous opportunities for Ph.D. students to network and present difficult to improve cities for everyone. Shifts: Migration, Urbanization, and Demography.” Its essential mission their research, help train the next generations of urban scholars These complicated and intertwined of disseminating knowledge takes many forms—from books, journal and practitioners. dynamics require collaborations across articles, briefs, and special reports to digital forums and electronic multiple disciplines. By working with all 12 publications—and expands into dozens of public events and expert In all these ways and many more, Penn IUR forms a vital part of the schools at the University, Penn IUR creates symposia, including this year’s hosting of an exhibit at Habitat III, University’s commitment to inclusion, innovation, and impact. We the networks and connections essential to the United Nations Conference on Housing and Sustainable Urban congratulate Penn IUR on its accomplishments in 2016–2017 and addressing these challenges. For example, Development in Quito, Ecuador. look forward to another highly productive year ahead. this year’s event “Media, Communication, and the City” featured an interdisciplinary Penn IUR also offers critical support for the work of urban-focused discussion among three Penn deans, faculty and students. The Penn IUR Faculty Fellows network and representing Communication, Design, Humanities+Urbanism+Design Initiative create hubs for cross- and Social Policy & Practice. 8 Penn Institute for Urban Research 2016–2017 ANNUAL REPORT 9

A MESSAGE FROM EUGÉNIE BIRCH Penn IUR’s Co-Directors & Advisory Board Chair Co-Director, Penn Institute for Urban Research; Lawrence C. Nussdorf Professor of Urban Research and Education, Department of City and Regional Planning, School of Design Over the 2016–2017 academic year, Penn IUR SUSAN WACHTER has strengthened its ongoing commitment to Co-Director, Penn Institute for Urban Research; Sussman Professor, Professor of Real Estate inform issues of critical importance to cities. and Finance, The Wharton School The research initiatives you will read about in EGBERT PERRY this report apply cutting-edge scholarship to Advisory Board Chair, Penn Institute for Urban Research; Chairman and CEO, The Integral Group, LLC real-world practice to advance sustainable and inclusive urban living.

From the Land for Public Good in To further foster urban practice and policy formation, Penn IUR To reach wide and diverse audiences and aid those making an impact Emerging Economies Initiative, which brings together experts at Penn and around the world to exchange across the globe, Penn IUR publishes research in long and short form, looks at the rapid urbanization challenges ideas and move forward on a host of wide-ranging urban issues. in scholarly journals and in popular pieces, and in print and digitally. of the developing world, to the Innovation Through Penn IUR’s Expert Roundtable series, thought-leaders this To personally introduce those engaged in global sustainable urban and Entrepreneurship in Higher Education year have tackled such topics as community building post-disaster, development, Penn IUR traveled to Habitat III in Quito, Ecuador and Initiative, which examines the potential for innovations in remote sensing for resilience and sustainability, mounted an exhibit of current research from Penn. university-led innovation, to Transforming pensions and urban fiscal stability, and urbanization in China and Our Economies for Opportunity, which Indonesia. Through Penn IUR’s annual Urban Leadership Forum, we Behind all of the efforts highlighted in this report is the vibrant and addresses how to build shared prosperity, honored internationally renowned experts who are making cities energetic network of people who make up Penn IUR—from Penn IUR’s we are examining broad policy as well inclusive and accessible. Through a unique lecture series, we provided pathbreaking Faculty Fellows and Scholars and Penn’s knowledge- as implementation. rare insight into the life of a transformative mayor. In addition, Penn hungry students to Penn IUR’s supportive and knowledgeable IUR has hosted 30 public lectures and panel discussions over the consultative boards and generous donors. They make this work year exploring subjects as varied as city dynamics ranging from possible through their collaborative spirit, substantive contributions, innovations in data and governance, rising sea levels and resiliency, and support of interdisciplinary urban research and solutions. the role of the new United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goals We look back at the past year with great appreciation for the (SDGs), reforming the U.S. mortgage market, and climate change contributions of our many associates and look forward to laying and forced migration. new ground with old and new partners. 10 Penn Institute for Urban Research 2016–2017 ANNUAL REPORT 11

Current Research Initiatives

Penn IUR’s research initiatives investigate how cities across the globe can become more sustainable, resilient, and equitable. Through these diverse initiatives, Penn IUR generates new scholarship and promotes the exchange of knowledge across disciplines, professions, and continents.

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Land for Public Good in Emerging Economies Penn IUR’s Land for Public Good in Emerging Economies

In many regions of the world, rapid urbanization has resulted in costly in partnership with the U.S. Department of State, the National Initiative wrestles with the complex governing, planning, unplanned development characterized by the uncontrolled spread of Renewable Energy Laboratory, Context Partners, Future Earth, crowded informal settlements in ecologically vulnerable areas. These World Resources Institute, The City of Oakland, Texas A&M and financing issues related to land use in rapidly places often lack access to basic infrastructure (transportation, University, Stanford University, MIT, and others. With Penn IUR electricity, water, sewage), urban services (education, health), and serving as the secretariat, this alliance conceptualizes a “RENEWW urbanizing areas. public space (parks and space for community facilities such as Zone” as a decentralized, closed-loop, multipurpose model for schools and health care centers). recycling waste and water, while producing energy and food within a designated area within or contiguous to a slum. These conditions have resulted in part from the failure of national governments to define appropriate spheres of activity for each To stimulate the adoption of RENEWW Zones, Penn IUR and level of government in urban development and to provide the partners are developing an Urban Prosperity Prize competition. to issues of rapid urbanization, and hosted a well-attended talk by For more information, visit: enabling framework that properly distributes responsibilities. Currently, the alliance is in the process of growing the public–private David Gouverneur, Associate Professor of Practice, on planning for ghsl.jrc.ec.europa.eu/atlas2017Overview.php Additionally, many national governments have not planned for coalition to launch and run the competition, which will catalyze the rapid urban development. (For more information on the Habitat III national infrastructure construction or for ecosystem protection. development of one to three pilot RENEWW Zones in geographically, exhibition, see page 31.) Additionally, Penn IUR Co-Director Susan Wachter took part in two environmentally, and sociologically diverse informal settlements workshops related to this initiative: a conference entitled “The Rise Penn IUR’s Land for Public Good in Emerging Economies Initiative by 2020. By working with UN Habitat, the alliance will ensure A third, recently launched prong of this initiative is Penn IUR’s of the City in China,” held at the Penn Wharton China Center, Beijing addresses this problem, wrestling with the complex governing, that each winning team and host city will receive the financial and participation as a partner in the GEO Human Planet Initiative: Spatial on November 4, 2016, and a symposium entitled “Urbanization, Urban planning, and financing issues related to land use in rapidly urbanizing governmental commitments necessary build the RENEWW Zone. Modeling of Impact, Exposure and Access to Resources, led by the Housing, and Housing Finance in Indonesia: Lessons Learned and areas. The project explores methods of creating large, orderly, well- The Ford Foundation hosted the RENEWW project’s kick-off meeting EU’s Joint Research Center. This partnership is forwarding the use Critical Thoughts to Move Forward” held in Jakarta on November 7, serviced land for anticipated urban development and for upgrading on March 31, 2017. of the recently launched Global Human Settlements Layer, an open 2016. The conference in Beijing focused on new design and financing existing informal settlements. To this end, Penn IUR is identifying source remote sensing tool that links real-time built environment mechanisms for urban development in China; the symposium in and evaluating governmental, regulatory, and financing structures Beyond the RENEWW project, Penn IUR furthered work on the and population data, to monitor the spatial dimensions of urban Jakarta addressed the housing opportunities and challenges that promote efficient and equitable urban development techniques Land for Public Good in Emerging Economies Initiative through development worldwide. Penn IUR Co-Director Eugénie Birch with presented by urbanization in Indonesia, a country experiencing in the face of rapid urbanization. engagement with a broad variety of stakeholders at Habitat III. Penn IUR Affiliated Doctoral Student Chandan Dueskar and Penn the fastest rate of urbanization in Asia. (For more on these events, Through an exhibition and speaker series, Penn IUR brought IUR Faculty Fellow Kenneth Steif, Program Director, Master of see pages 54–55.) In 2016–2017, Penn IUR advanced this work by launching a project University of Pennsylvania research to an audience keenly interested Urban Spatial Analytics, School of Design tested its application in entitled Renewable Energy, Nutrition, Environment, Water, and in this topic. The exhibition featured a section on the Land for Public measuring the sprawl indicator to be used in monitoring the planning Advisory Board member Robert Stewart (W ’88) has provided Waste (RENEWW) Innovation Zones in Rapidly Urbanizing Places, Good in Emerging Economies Initiative, synopses of research relevant target of Goal 11 (“Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, support for this initiative. This initiative is enriched by Penn IUR’s resilient and sustainable”) in the UN’s 2030 Agenda for Sustainable partnership with Perry World House on its inaugural research theme Development whose results are published in The Atlas of the Human “Global Shifts: Urbanization, Migration, and Demography,” which is Planet 2016. Birch chairs the GEO Human Planet Initiative’s Working led by PWH Director and Penn IUR Faculty Fellow William Burke- Group on New Global Settlement Data and Civil Society. White and Program Manager Katelyn Leader. (See page 55 for more on this partnership.)

FAR LEFT: Shanghai, China. LEFT: This year, Penn IUR launched Renewable Energy, Nutrition, Environment, Water, and Waste (RENEWW) Innovation Zones in Rapidly Urbanizing Places. 14 Penn Institute for Urban Research 2016–2017 ANNUAL REPORT 15

Transforming Our Economies Housing Affordability and Financing Systems for Opportunity Penn IUR promotes scholarship and discussion related to housing affordability and Economic inequality in the United States has been housing finance systems both in the United States and abroad. In 2016–2017, Penn growing and, with it, the geographic segregation IUR published a book and organized multiple public events on the topic of America’s between places with more economic opportunities housing finance system and participated at a high level in an international conference and those with fewer. In 2016–2017, Penn IUR on housing. undertook research on initiatives to transform urban The Federal Reserve Bank of New York is a key partner with Penn IUR in investigations economies in order to better achieve inclusive growth into America’s housing finance system.Principles of Housing Finance Reform (University through its ongoing partnership with the Federal of Pennsylvania Press, 2016), edited by Penn IUR Co-Director Susan Wachter and Reserve Bank of Philadelphia (Philadelphia Fed). Joseph Tracy, Executive Vice President and Special Adviser to the President of the Penn IUR developed the research component of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, and published by Penn Press in the Penn IUR / Penn Philadelphia Fed’s biennial conference on the topic Press The City in the 21st Century book series, offers a framework for modernizing and co-edited a research volume jointly with the Fed. the America’s housing finance system. (For more on this book, see page 20.)

Under the leadership of Penn IUR Co-Director Susan On April 10, 2017, Penn IUR sponsored a book launch for Principles of Housing Finance Wachter, Penn IUR drew together preeminent thinkers Reform entitled “The U.S. Mortgage Market: What Does the Future Hold for Credit on this subject who presented at the Philadelphia Fed Risk and Access?” This event featured a public panel discussion with leading experts on conference, held in September 2016, “Reinventing Our the nation’s mortgage system, including Barry Zigas, Director of Housing, Consumer Communities: Transforming Our Economies.” (See Federation of America; Greg Boester, Managing Director, JPMorgan; Gerron Levi, page 61 for more on the conference.) Additionally, Director of Policy and Government Affairs, National Community Reinvestment Coalition; Penn IUR worked with the Philadelphia Fed to Peter Carroll, Executive Vice President, Mortgage Policy and Counterparty Relations, develop a series of Penn IUR / Federal Reserve Bank Quicken Loans. Penn IUR Co-Director Susan Wachter moderated the discussion. of Philadelphia working papers, later published in a special issue of the journal Cityscape. (See page 29 for On April 27 and 28, Penn IUR, the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, and others details on the publication and page 42 for an excerpt cosponsored the “Workshop on the Appropriate Government Role in U.S. Mortgage from Cityscape.) Markets.” This event featured talks by Ed DeMarco, Milken Institute, who spoke on “Housing Finance Reform: Agreement Trumps Disagreement” and Robert Shiller, Yale University, who gave a talk entitled “Narrative Economics and the Housing Market.” Urban Fiscal Stability and Sustainability Going Forward Eight panel discussions covered topics including financial stability and mortgage markets, government credit pricing, the role of private capital, secondary mortgage markets, mortgage finance innovations and government’s role, mortgage market Penn IUR is committed to promoting fiscally responsible and sustainable urban economies. In 2016–2017, interventions and economic growth, the role of government in supporting affordable Penn IUR’s work on this topic centered around the looming problem of underfunded state and local housing, and mortgage access and sustainable economic activity. pensions, which undermines the fiscal solvency of a number of the nation’s subnational governments. Through its publications and convenings, Penn IUR has emerged as an important contributor to the dialogue on this topic. Over the past year, Penn IUR continued its leadership role by convening public and private officials, scholars, and researchers for public convenings as well as high-level roundtables.

On November 10, 2016, Penn IUR hosted the symposium “Public Pensions and City Solvency,” which featured two panel discussions with experts from academia, industry, and government and a talk by Richard Ravitch, former Lieutenant Governor, State of New York. The event served as the book launch for Public Pensions and City Solvency (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2016) edited by Susan Wachter. (See page 66 for more on this event.)

In the spring of 2017, Penn IUR launched the next stage of its investigation into the underfunded pensions problem by organizing a series of exploratory roundtables in New York City. These meetings are scoping the current state of the issues and designing future work that links scholars and cutting edge research to industry experts and policy makers. (See page 54 for details on these meetings and Looking Ahead, page 100, for more on this project going forward.) LEFT: The Cityscape papers highlighted strategies to create places of opportunity, including developing the local workforce for These efforts are part of a multi-year initiative to investigate urban fiscal sustainability, made possible a global marketplace and providing wealth with support from Penn IUR Advisory Board member Lawrence Nussdorf (W ’68). and opportunity inclusively to all segments of the population. 16 Penn Institute for Urban Research 2016–2017 ANNUAL REPORT 17

Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Higher Education

Innovation and entrepreneurship are the Subsequently, the Working Group, familiar with Higher Education System: A Catalytic Roadmap engines of prosperity in the 21st century Penn IUR’s work on anchor institutions and for Higher Education Collaboration. (To read economy, with colleges and universities innovation, retained Penn IUR to assist in the an excerpt of the plan, see page 40.) playing a lead role in creating the networks plan’s development. Between December 2016 and environments that engender such and April 2017, Penn IUR’s Co-Director Eugénie The plan assesses the state’s current assets dynamism. Recognizing this, the Connecticut Birch and Project Manager Amanda Lloyd led and opportunities in relation to innovation and legislature initiated a $10 million fund to this project, interviewing administrators and entrepreneurship in higher education, offers support collaborative work in facilitating faculty at more than 20 universities around a set of recommendations to strengthen the innovation ecosystem across its entrepreneurship and innovation among the the state to discuss their programs, initiatives, ESCI Best Practices awards were given colleges and universities and lists criteria for projects in each of the ESCI-KSP’s five state’s institutions of higher education to be and goals for supporting entrepreneurship and content areas, such as awards for Japan’s for evaluating grant applications. It calls for managed by CTNext, the state agency that innovation at their institutions. Concurrently, Panahome Smart City development in continued support for building the networks Shioashiya (ABOVE; photo by Peellden, fosters growth in startup and early-stage Birch moderated four Working Group via Wikipedia) and Chinese Taipei’s and relationships that emerged during the businesses and links startups to promote meetings to assess the scope and scale of innovative use of information and planning process, the creation of regional communication technology (LEFT; photo greater business activity. The legislature programs, opportunities, and risks; examine by PanaHome Corporation). mandated the development of a strategic higher education’s collective capacity to hubs to share educational, mentoring, legal, plan to guide the dispersal of funds. At the catalyze a thriving innovative economy and and business advice for start-ups, and the inaugural meeting of the state’s 38 college and incubate an entrepreneurial workforce across development of a state resource portal. university presidents hosted by Peter Salovey, the state; establish a strategic roadmap to Sweeney, Ojakian, and Birch presented the President, Yale University, the leaders created promote collaboration and cooperation plan to the CTNext board that is currently the Working Group on Entrepreneurship among the state’s colleges and universities; implementing it. and Innovation chaired by Joanne Berger- and identify funding priorities for state-funded Supporting Sustainable Energy Across the Asia Pacific Sweeney, President, Trinity College, and Mark higher education entrepreneurship grants. Ojakian, President, Connecticut State College Penn IUR drafted the Working Group’s plan, In 2016–2017, Penn IUR continued to promote the adoption of Awardees included Chinese Taipei’s innovative use of information and University System, to undertake the plan. Entrepreneurship & Innovation in Connecticut’s energy efficient technologies and practices across the Asia Pacific and communication technology to address severe congestion in by facilitating knowledge transfer and reviewing best practices. their Smart Park innovation district in the Transport category and Japan’s Panahome Smart City development in Shioashiya category The core of this work is Penn IUR’s ongoing support for the Energy for deploying energy efficient homes along with onsite renewable Smart Communities Initiative (ESCI), established in 2010 by U.S. generation for an entire community in the Smart Buildings category. President Obama and Japanese Prime Minister Kan to help Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) economies reduce the region’s Penn IUR’s experience with the ESCI-KSP has led to a new project: energy intensity (energy consumed per gross domestic product). conducting a gaps analysis of APEC-sponsored energy efficiency Managed by APEC’s Energy Working Group (APEC-EWG), the projects. Penn IUR will scrutinize the nearly 200 projects funded initiative’s preeminent project is the ESCI Knowledge Sharing Platform by APEC since 1993, contextualize the findings, and recommend (ESCI-KSP), a web-based knowledge-sharing platform that highlights priorities for future funding by illustrating current gaps. This project best practices and demonstration projects in energy efficient urban will be completed in November 2017. development. Penn IUR, in partnership with the Taiwan Institute for Economic Research (TIER) and with funding from the National Further deepening Penn IUR’s work with APEC, the Asia Pacific Development Council (NDC) of Taiwan, developed the ESCI-KSP in Sustainable Energy Center (APSEC) invited Penn IUR Co-Director 2011 and continues to work with TIER to collect best practices for Eugénie Birch to join its Advisory Board in order help APSEC define its inclusion in the database and to present the latest achievements of program and optimize knowledge-sharing among APEC economies. the ESCI-KSP at APEC-EWG meetings. (For more on the ESCI-KSP, Created in 2015 to help APEC meet its previously defined goal of see page 31.) reducing aggregated energy intensity by 45 percent from 2005 levels ABOVE: The final report includes an assessment of the state’s current by 2035, APSEC directly supports the development and dissemination assets and opportunities in relation to Penn IUR also worked with TIER to initiate and organize a recognition of sustainable energy technologies and knowledge across the APEC innovation and entrepreneurship in higher education as well as a plan to program, now in its third year. The ESCI Best Practices Awards region. Where the ESCI-KSP is focused on capturing and distributing strengthen the innovation ecosystem highlights exceptional demonstrations of best practices in energy knowledge of technologies and practices, APSEC is working to deploy across its colleges and universities. efficiency across ESCI’s five content areas (transport, buildings, grids, these same technologies and practices in the APEC region and, in jobs and consumers, and low-carbon model towns). The APEC Energy doing so, to capture more detailed case studies of successful energy Working Group honored the award winners selected from among smart projects. In September 2017, Penn IUR and ASPEC will sign a nearly 200 applicants by a panel of judges led by Penn IUR Co-Director memorandum of understanding outlining areas for collaboration. Eugénie Birch at its 53rd meeting convened in Singapore in April 2017. 18 Penn Institute for Urban Research 2016–2017 ANNUAL REPORT 19

Translational Research: Publications &

Dissemination Disseminating research is central to Penn IUR’s mission and a core part of all of its activities.

The Institute disseminates research in print and online publications, including The City in the 21st Century book series published by the University of Pennsylvania Press, the SSRN Urban Research eJournal, Urban Link, Penn IUR briefs, and a variety of special reports and articles. Another key way in which Penn IUR disseminates research is by creating spaces for knowledge transfer. In 2016–2017, Penn IUR continued work on the Global Urban Commons and the ESCI-Knowledge Sharing Platform (ESCI-KSP), two online spaces that Penn IUR developed in earlier years, and created an exhibition at Habitat III, the world’s preeminent urban conference, to publicize urban research undertaken at Penn and create a space for informal knowledge-sharing among researchers and practitioners.

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The City in the 21st Century Book Series

Penn IUR’s Co-Directors Eugénie Birch and Principles of Housing Finance Reform end, Portland mandates local land use. Rosan Susan Wachter edit The City in the 21st outlines the long-term structural reforms contends that most regions—including Century book series published by University that should underlie a rebuilt housing finance Denver—lie somewhere in between. She of Pennsylvania Press, which now includes 35 system with contributions from both policy argues that by understanding the current, volumes and more than a million copies sold. researchers and economic experts. Authors hybrid system of local land use planning and This series explores the depth and breadth propose solutions within this framework, metropolitan governance, stakeholders will of contemporary urban-focused scholarship including reforms to the role of the GSEs in be better prepared to support the political across a wide range of disciplines including the single and multi-family housing finance arrangements and tools needed to create anthropology, planning, sociology, economics, system, the Federal Housing Administration, sustainable metropolitan regions. architecture, urban design, political science, and and the to-be-announced (TBA) market, as history. The series represents a cross-section well as a proposal for a national mortgage Immigration and Metropolitan Revitalization Penn IUR’s Co-Directors Eugénie Birch and Susan Wachter of research and experience on the city across note registry, among other topics. in the United States argues for the the developed and developing world. importance of immigration in reviving edit The City in the 21st Century (C21) book series published In Governing the Fragmented Metropolis, American cities and metropolitan regions. In 2016–2017, Penn Press released three Rosan compares the metropolitan The authors examine the dynamics of by University of Pennsylvania Press, which now includes 35 new volumes in the series: Principles of planning processes embraced by Portland, immigrant-led urban revitalization from a Housing Finance Reform, edited by Susan Denver, and Boston, positing a spectrum range of social science perspectives, with volumes and over a million copies sold. Wachter and Joseph Tracy; Governing of approaches from collaborative to sections focusing on immigrants’ influence the Fragmented Metropolis, by Christina authoritative. At one end of the spectrum on population and economic growth as well Rosan, and Immigration and Metropolitan is Boston, which offers capacity-building as chapters that highlight revitalization in Revitalization in the United States, edited by support and financial incentives in order to and by working-class and poor communities. Domenic Vitiello and Thomas Sugrue. garner voluntary cooperation. At the other 22 Penn Institute for Urban Research 2016–2017 ANNUAL REPORT 23

The City in the 21st Century book series includes the following titles. More are in development.

HC = HARD COVER PB = PAPERBACK EB = E-BOOK ROGER D. ABRAHAMS WITH ELIJAH ANDERSON WITH A FOREWORD EUGÉNIE L. BIRCH, GREGORY L. HELLER WITH A MICHAEL B. KATZ SCOTT KNOWLES MARTIN KRIEGER NICK SPITZER, JOHN F. SZWED, BY CORNEL WEST, EDITOR SHAHANA CHATTARAJ, FOREWORD BY ALEXANDER GARVIN Why Don’t American Cities Burn? The Disaster Experts: Urban Tomographies AND ROBERT FARRIS THOMPSON Against the Wall: Poor, Young, AND SUSAN M. WACHTER Ed Bacon: Planning, Politics, and the Mastering Risk in Modern America (HC 2011, PB 2013, EB 2012) (HC 2011, EB 2011) Blues for New Orleans: Mardi Gras Black, and Male Slums: How Informal Building of Modern Philadelphia (HC 2011, PB 2013, EB 2012) and America’s Creole Soul Real Estate Markets Work (PB 2009, EB 2011) (HC 2013, PB 2016, EB 2013) (HC 2006, EB 2010) (HC 2016, EB 2016)

EUGÉNIE L. BIRCH AND EUGÉNIE L. BIRCH AND EUGÉNIE L. BIRCH AND CHRISTIAN KROHN-HANSEN AFAF IBRAHIM MELEIS, HARRIET B. NEWBURGER, EUGÉNIE L. LAURA W. PERNA, EDITOR SUSAN M. WACHTER, EDITORS SUSAN M. WACHTER, EDITORS SUSAN M. WACHTER, EDITORS Making New York Dominican: Small EUGÉNIE L. BIRCH, AND BIRCH, AND SUSAN M. WACHTER, EDITORS Preparing Today’s Students Rebuilding Urban Places After Disaster: Growing Greener Cities: Urban Global Urbanization Business, Politics, and Everyday Life SUSAN M. WACHTER, EDITORS Neighborhood and Life Chances: How for Tomorrow’s Jobs in Lessons from Hurricane Katrina Sustainability in the Twenty-First Century Women’s Health and the World’s Cities Place Matters in Modern America Metropolitan America (HC 2011, EB 2011) (HC 2012, EB 2012) (PB 2006, EB 2013) (PB 2008, EB 2011) (HC 2011, PB 2013, EB 2011) (HC 2011, PB 2013, EB 2011) (HC 2012, EB 2012)

EDWARD J. BLAKELY WITH A PETER HENDEE BROWN PETER HENDEE BROWN MARINA PETERSON MARINA PETERSON AND JUDITH RODIN CRISTINA D. ROSAN FOREWORD BY HENRY CISNEROS America’s Waterfront Revival: Port How Real Estate Developers Think: Sound, Space, and the City: Civic GARY McDONOGH, EDITORS The University and Urban Revival: Governing the Fragmented Metropolis: My Storm: Managing the Recovery of Authorities and Urban Redevelopment Design, Profits, and Community Performance in Downtown Los Angeles Global Downtowns Out of the Ivory Tower and Into the Streets Planning for Regional Sustainability New Orleans in the Wake of Katrina (HC 2008) (HC 2015, PB 2017, EB 2015) (HC 2010, PB 2012, EB 2012) (HC 2011, PB 2014, EB 2012) (HC 2007, EB 2015) (HC 2016, EB 2016) (HC 2011, EB 2012)

JON CALAME AND NAOMI CARMON AND RAM CNAAN WITH STEPHANIE C. BRENT D. RYAN JOHN TIMONEY WITH A DOMENIC VITIELLO SUSAN M. WACHTER, EDITOR ESTHER CHARLESWORTH SUSAN FAINSTEIN BODDIE, CHARLENE C. McGREW, Design After Decline: How America FOREWORD BY TOM WOLFE AND THOMAS SUGRUE, EDITORS Public Pensions and City Solvency Divided Cities: Belfast, Beirut, Policy, Planning, and People: Promoting AND JENNIFER KANG Rebuilds Shrinking Cities Beat Cop to Top Cop: Immigration and Metropolitan (HC 2016, EB 2015) Jerusalem, Mostar, and Nicosia Justice in Urban Development The Other Philadelphia Story: A Tale of Three Cities Revitalization in the United States (HC 2012, PB 2014, EB 2012) How Local Congregations Support (PB 2012, EB 2011) (PB 2013, EB 2013) (HC 2010, EB 2011) (HC 2017, EB 2017) Quality of Life in Urban America (HC 2006, EB 2010)

MARGARET DEWAR AND MANNY DIAZ WITH A FOREWORD ZAIRE ZENIT DINZEY-FLORES SUSAN M. WACHTER AND SUSAN M. WACHTER AND SUSAN M. WACHTER AND SUSAN M. WACHTER AND JUNE MANNING THOMAS, EDITORS BY MICHAEL BLOOMBERG Locked In, Locked Out: Gated LEI DING, EDITORS MARVIN M. SMITH, EDITORS KIMBERLY A. ZEULI, EDITORS JOSEPH TRACY, EDITORS The City After Abandonment Miami Transformed: Rebuilding America Communities in a Puerto Rican City Shared Prosperity in The American Mortgage System: Revitalizing American Cities Principles of Housing Finance Reform One Neighborhood, One City at a Time America’s Communities Crisis and Reform (HC 2012, EB 2012) (HC 2013, EB 2013) (HC 2013, EB 2013) (HC 2016, EB 2016) (HC 2012, PB 2014, EB 2012) (HC 2016, EB 2016) (PB 2014, EB 2011) 24 Penn Institute for Urban Research 2016–2017 ANNUAL REPORT 25

Edited by Penn IUR Social Science Research Network Penn IUR Urban Research eJournal Advisory Board Urban Research eJournal Co-Directors Eugénie ELIJAH ANDERSON ABHA JOSHI-GHANI William K. Lanman, Jr. Professor of Sociology, Department Senior Adviser, Public Private Partnerships, The World Bank Penn IUR’s Urban Research eJournal, published twice weekly of Sociology, Yale University Birch and Susan through the Social Science Research Network (SSRN), gathers IRA KATZNELSON and distributes new research that addresses the governance, Wachter, and overseen RAPHAEL BOSTIC President of the Social Science Research Council (SSRC); Ruggles policy, economics, design, and social issues that surround global President and CEO, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta Professor of Political Science and History, Columbia University urbanization. The eJournal highlights the urban-focused research by an advisory board of scholars worldwide. Edited by Penn IUR Co-Directors Eugénie YONGHENG DENG KYUNG-HWAN KIM of preeminent urban Birch and Susan Wachter, and overseen by an advisory board of Provost’s Chair, Professor of Real Estate and Finance; Director, Professor, School of Economics, Sogang University; former preeminent urban scholars, it accepts abstracts, working papers, Institute of Real Estate Studies; Head, Department of Real Estate, President, Korea Research Institute for Human Settlements; scholars, the Urban and recently published articles. A sample of recently published National University of Singapore Immediate Vice Minister, Republic of Korea; Vice Minister, articles includes “Government Quality and the Economic Returns Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport (MOLIT) of Transport Infrastructure Investment in European Regions” by GILLES DURANTON Research eJournal Riccardo Crescenzi, Marco Di Cataldo and Andrés Rodríguez-Pose; Dean’s Chair in Real Estate Professor and Chair, Real Estate CATHERINE ROSS accepts abstracts, “The Impacts of Neighborhoods on Intergenerational Mobility II: Department, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania Harry West Professor of City and Regional Planning and Director, County-Level Estimates,” by Raj Chetty and Nathaniel Hendren; Center for Quality Growth and Regional Development, Georgia and “Between the Market and the State: Financing and Servicing working papers, RICHARD FLORIDA Institute of Technology Self–Sustaining Sanitation Chains in Informal Settlements in East Global Research Professor, New York University; Director African Cities,” by Aime Tsinda and Pamela Abbott. Since its inception and recently of Business and Creativity, The Martin Prosperity Institute, BISHWAPRIYA SANYAL in 2012, Urban Research eJournal articles have been downloaded Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto Ford International Professor of Urban Development published articles. more than 623,000 times. Ford International Professor of Urban Development and EDWARD GLAESER Planning, Massachusetts Institute of Technology School Fred and Eleanor Glimp Professor of Economics, Kennedy School of Architecture + Planning of Government, Harvard University SASKIA SASSEN WILLIAM GOETZMANN Robert S. Lynd Professor of Sociology, Columbia University Edwin J. Beinecke Professor of Finance and Management Studies and Director International Center for Finance Yale School of MICHAEL H. SCHILL Management; National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) President, University of Oregon

ANTHONY YEH Chair Professor, Department of Urban Planning and Design; Director of the Geographic Information Systems Research Centre; Deputy Convener of the Contemporary China Studies Strategic Research Area, University of Hong Kong 26 Penn Institute for Urban Research 2016–2017 ANNUAL REPORT 27

Urban Link

Penn IUR’s Urban Link is Penn IUR’s monthly online publication that features expert commentary on urban topics and highlights Penn IUR news and events. Launched in SPOTLIGHT ON: November 2012, Urban Link has 5,783 subscribers. Penn IUR’s Faculty Fellows and Scholars January 2017 Urban Link author Urban Link’s articles, allowing Penn IUR to disseminate the groundbreaking TIMOTHY J. BARTIK, ANGELA GLOVER PAUL C. BROPHY, PETER HENDEE BROWN, Every year, Penn IUR queries its leading SENIOR ECONOMIST, BLACKWELL, CEO, PRINCIPAL, BROPHY URBAN DEVELOPMENT scholarship of its associates. This year, Penn IUR Faculty Fellows and other scholars experts and scholars on an issue that W.E. UPJOHN INSTITUTE POLICYLINK & REILLY LLC CONSULTANT, LECTURER, and practitioners contributed the following features: Infrastructure and Infrastructure Transportation in HUMPHREY SCHOOL will be important in the upcoming year Distressed Areas Investment Must Inclusive Economic OF PUBLIC AFFAIRS, and publishes their responses in the first Benefit All Development UNIVERSITY OF ROBERT INMAN AND SUSAN WACHTER MINNESOTA Urban Link issue of the year. This year, Invest in the Public Realm “Pension Liabilities: A Call for Transparency.” August 2016. in response to the Trump campaign’s vow to develop “the next generation” of MATTHEW STEINBERG AND RAND QUINN American infrastructure, Penn IUR asked: “Lessons Learned for Transforming Urban Public Education.” September 2016. In your view, what should the United States do about urban infrastructure? RICHARD WELLER This feature attracted the attention of “Atlas for the End of the World.” October 2016. several news outlets including NPR,

Planetizen, and Penn Current. GILLES DURANTON, ERICK GUERRA, JOHN D. LANDIS, HOWARD NEUKRUG, REFLECTIONS ON HABITAT III: A HOPEFUL FUTURE FOR SUSTAINABLE CHAIR, REAL ESTATE ASSISTANT PROFESSOR, CROSSWAYS PROFESSOR FORMER COMMISSIONER, URBAN DEVELOPMENT To read responses from DEPARTMENT, THE CITY AND REGIONAL OF CITY PLANNING PHILADELPHIA WATER WHARTON SCHOOL, PLANNING, UNIVERSITY AND DEPARTMENT DEPARTMENT Special issue featuring reflections on Habitat III with contributions from Stefan Al, these urban experts, visit UNIVERSITY OF OF PENNSYLVANIA CHAIR, UNIVERSITY OF Water and the Nation’s William Burke-White, Daniel Aldana Cohen, Laurent Corroyer, Chandan Deuskar, the “Publications” section of PENNSYLVANIA Financing Urban PENNSYLVANIA Infrastructure Infrastructure Spending Infrastructure Re-prioritizing Paul Farmer, Sa Min Han, Mark Alan Hughes, Krista Iskandar, Chaeri Kim, Sirus Libeiro, the Penn IUR website: to Greatness? Federal Infrastructure Wendell Pritchett, Mary Rocco, Eduardo Rojas, David Stanek, Patricio Zambrano-Barragan. penniur.upenn.edu/publications Investments November 2016.

JOSEPH TRACY AND SUSAN WACHTER “Principles of Housing Finance Reform: The Imperative of Rebuilding the System.” December 2016.

EXPERT VOICES 2017: AMERICA’S URBAN INFRASTRUCTURE Special New Year’s issue with contributions from Timothy Bartik, Angela Glover JEREMY NOWAK, MEGAN RYERSON, SASKIA SASSEN, ROBERT FREDERICK STEINER, PRESIDENT, J NOWAK ASSISTANT PROFESSOR, S. LYND PROFESSOR OF DEAN AND PALEY Blackwell, Paul Brophy, Peter Hendee Brown, Gilles Duranton, Erick Guerra, AND ASSOCIATES, LLC CITY AND REGIONAL SOCIOLOGY, COLUMBIA PROFESSOR, UNIVERSITY John Landis, Howard Neukrug, Jeremy Nowak, Megan Ryerson, Saskia Sassen, Frederick Utilizing Environmental PLANNING, UNIVERSITY UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA Intelligence in OF PENNSYLVANIA Multi-tasking SCHOOL OF DESIGN Steiner, Sarah Rosen Wartell, Dick Voith, Robert Yaro, Mark Zandi. January 2017. Infrastructure Planning Consider Infrastructure’s Infrastructures Infrastructure: Optimal Use Make It Green ARTHUR ACOLIN AND SUSAN WACHTER “Housing and Opportunity.” February 2017.

JOHN FANTUZZO, KATIE BARGHAUS, AND WHITNEY LEBOEUF FROM TOP: Photos by Owen Birne, via Flickr; by Howard County Library System, via Flickr; by user GPS, via Flickr. “Improving the Evidence Base for Access to Quality Pre-K.” March 2017.

RICHARD FLORIDA “The New Urban Crisis.” April 2017. RICHARD VOITH, SARAH ROSEN WARTELL, ROBERT YARO, MARK ZANDI, CHIEF PRESIDENT AND PRESIDENT, URBAN PROFESSOR OF ECONOMIST, MOODY’S PRINCIPAL, ECONSULT INSTITUTE PRACTICE, DEPT. OF ANALYTICS NEW IDEAS IN URBAN RESEARCH 2017: RESEARCH QUESTIONS AND SOLUTIONS Pursuing Evidence-based CITY AND REGIONAL Improved Infrastructure PLANNING, UNIVERSITY FINDINGS FROM EMERGING SCHOLARS Historical Patterns of Infrastructure Objectives Must Include Affordable Infrastructure Funding OF PENNSYLVANIA; Housing Reflections on Urban Issues from recent Penn Ph.D.s. May 2017. PRESIDENT EMERITUS, REGIONAL PLAN ASSOCIATION Financing America’s Infrastructure Needs 28 Penn Institute for Urban Research 2016–2017 ANNUAL REPORT 29

Penn IUR Briefs Special Reports and Journal Articles

The Penn IUR Briefs series brings leading scholarship on urban issues to a broad Penn IUR publishes special reports, papers, supports research for journal audience. Authors in this series distill research findings, present policy ideas, offer articles, and disseminates the output widely through its website and other opinions, or explore lessons learned from a particular project. In 2016–2017, Richard means. Highlights from 2016–2017 include “Habitat III: The Quest for Weller contributed “Atlas for the End of the World: Mapping that Recognizes Sustainable Urban Development” by Penn IUR Co-Director Eugénie Birch Interdependence of People and Conservation” (October 2016) and Arthur Acolin and Jane Vincent, Regional Administrator Region III, U.S. Department of and Susan Wachter wrote “Housing and Opportunity” (February 2017). (Excerpts Housing and Urban Development and, in a follow-up assessment, Eugénie from both of these briefs are included in this report beginning on page 32.) Birch’s “A Midterm Report: Will Habitat III Make a Difference to the World’s Urban Development?” In a separate project, Penn IUR Co-Director Susan In “Atlas for the End of the World: Mapping that Recognizes Interdependence Wachter co-edited with William Lambe, Senior Community and Economic of People and Conservation,” Weller maps existing and anticipated conflicts Development Advisor, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, and Theresa between biologically diverse habitat and human development. He outlines currently Singleton, Vice President and Community Affairs Officer, Federal Reserve protected areas in the ecoregions within the world’s biodiversity hotspots and Bank of Atlanta, a special issue of Cityscape, which grew out of a joint calculates how much more needs to be set aside to meet UN-agreed targets set Penn IUR / Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia working paper series. by the Convention on Biological Diversity. In addition, he anticipates the conflicts between projected urban growth and biologically diverse habitat. Finally, he Originally published in Cascade, the journal of the Federal Reserve Bank argues that public and private decision-makers need maps that intertwine human of Philadelphia in Fall 2016, Birch and Vincent’s “Habitat III: The Quest and biological conservation as sources of information for their work. The Brief for Sustainable Urban Development” puts the Habitat III conference in summarizes Weller’s three-year research project. historical and political context, reviewing in particular the emphasis on the integration of civil society stakeholders in the conference preparations In “Housing and Opportunity,” Acolin and Wachter discuss the relationship between the focus on implementation as the conference’s goal. employment opportunities and housing access. This Brief summarizes a longer working paper they wrote for the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia. In it, they Birch’s “A Midterm Report: Will Habitat III Make a Difference to the review the relationship between housing affordability and household mobility and World’s Urban Development?” was published in the July 2016 issue of the discuss the long-term implications of these findings for intergenerational welfare. Journal of the American Planning Association. In it, she argues that clear They argue that countering growing spatial inequality of opportunity requires messaging and strong civic engagement are essential to the successful space-based solutions. implementation of the New Urban Agenda, the outcome document of the Habitat III conference. Further, she called on city and regional planners Penn IUR Briefs can be found on the “Publications” worldwide to take on an advocacy role in supporting the New Urban section of the Penn IUR website at: Agenda’s three key thrusts: fit-for-purpose governance, management penniur.upenn.edu/publications and planning of urban spatial development, and implementation including BELOW: Evolution of Urbanization: Modern Era, from Weller’s Atlas for the End of the World. knowledge sharing, capacity-building, and finance. (See page 48 for an excerpt from the article.)

The special issue of Cityscape (March 2017) highlighted strategies to create places of opportunity, develop the local workforce for a global marketplace, and provide wealth and opportunity inclusively to all segments of the population. Articles included an introduction by guest editors Susan Wachter, Walter Lambe, and Theresa Singleton and five papers by leading researchers: Arthur Acolin and Susan Wachter, “Opportunity and Housing Access;” Andrés Rodríguez-Pose and Callum Wilkie, “Revamping Local and Regional Development Through Place-Based Strategies;” Harry J. Holzer, “The Role of Skills and Jobs in Transforming Communities;” Matthew Steinberg and Rand Quinn, “Education Reform in the Post- NCLB Era: Lessons Learned for Transforming Urban Public Education;” and Lance Freeman and Jenny Schuetz, “Producing Affordable Housing in Rising Markets: What Works?” (See page 42 for an excerpt from Steinberg and Quinn.) 30 Penn Institute for Urban Research 2016–2017 ANNUAL REPORT 31

Global Urban Commons

Penn IUR hosts and manages the Global Urban Commons (The Commons), a publicly accessible online directory of urban research centers from around the world, a source for information about global urban research and a home base for the General Assembly of Partners (GAP), the multi-stakeholder engagement platform created to support the Habitat III conference and the implementation of the New Urban Agenda. Created in 2014 with seed funding from the University of Pennsylvania Press and the Rockefeller Foundation, Penn IUR continued to manage this site’s searchable directory of urban research organizations and resources related to global urbanization. As a communications arm for the General Assembly of Partners (GAP), the site documents the work of 16 separate partner groups and provides a directory of its more than 2,000 organizational members.

Global Urban Commons Advisory Board

EUGÉNIE BIRCH STEPHEN MALPEZZI Co-Director, Penn IUR; Lawrence C. Nussdorf Professor of Professor Emeritus, James A. Graaskamp Center for Real Estate, Urban Research and Education, Department of City and Regional Wisconsin School of Business, University of Wisconsin–Madison Planning, School of Design, University of Pennsylvania GEORGE McCARTHY Energy Smart Communities Habitat III Exhibition: MONICA BREZZI President and CEO, Lincoln Institute of Land Policy Initiative-Knowledge Knowledge for an Urbanizing World Director, Technical Assessment and Monitoring, Council of Europe Development Bank SUSAN PARNELL Sharing Platform Professor, Environmental and Geographical Sciences; In addition to online platforms that translate and disseminate research, Penn IUR creates real-world platforms for the exchange of research and ideas. This year, WILLIAM COBBETT Member, African Centre for Cities, University of Capetown The Energy Smart Communities Initiative-Knowledge Director, Cities Alliance Sharing Platform (ESCI-KSP), a web-based as part of Penn IUR’s engagement at Habitat III, Penn IUR mounted an exhibit showcasing urban-focused research and publications undertaken at Penn IUR, by BIMAL PATEL knowledge-sharing platform, highlights best practices faculty across the university, and by Perry World House (PWH) and the Kleinman YONGHENG DENG President, Centre for Environmental Planning and Technology and demonstration projects in energy efficient urban Provost’s Chair, Professor of Real Estate and Finance; Director, University (CEPT) University development. It is the preeminent project of ESCI, Center for Energy Policy. The projects and publications shared at the exhibition Institute of Real Estate Studies; Head, Department of Real Estate, established in 2010 by U.S. President Obama and booth aimed to not only generate new knowledge but also facilitate the exchange of best practices related to sustainable urbanization across the globe. National University of Singapore AROMAR REVI Japanese Prime Minister Kan to help Asia Pacific Director, Indian Institute for Human Settlements (IIHS) Economic Cooperation (APEC) economies reduce In addition, Penn IUR hosted more than 20 presentations by members of the Penn GILLES DURANTON the region’s energy intensity (energy consumed per delegation to Habitat III, among whom were Penn IUR Advisory Board member Dean’s Chair in Real Estate Professor; Chair, Department of SASKIA SASSEN gross domestic product) by 45% of 2005 levels by Paul Farmer, Principal, Paul Farmer Planning and former CEO, American Planning Real Estate, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania Robert S. Lynd Professor of Sociology, Columbia University 2035 and is managed by APEC’s Energy Working Association; Penn IUR Faculty Fellows Stefan Al, Associate Professor of City Group (APEC-EWG). Penn IUR, in partnership with and Regional Planning, School of Design; William Burke-White, Richard Perry VERNON HENDERSON SUSAN WACHTER the Taiwan Institute for Economic Research (TIER) Professor of Law, School of Law, and Director, PWH; Daniel Aldana Cohen, Assistant School Professor of Economic Geography, Department of Co-Director, Penn IUR; Sussman Professor, Professor of and with funding from the National Development Professor, Sociology, School of Arts and Sciences; David Gouverneur, Associate Geography and Environment, London School of Economics Real Estate and Finance, The Wharton School Council (NDC) of Taiwan, developed the ESCI-KSP in Professor of Practice in Landscape Architecture, School of Design; Mark Alan 2011 and continues to work with TIER to collect best Hughes, Professor of Practice in City and Regional Planning, School of Design and MARK ALAN HUGHES ANTHONY YEH practices for inclusion in the database. In 2016–2017, Faculty Director, Kleinman Center for Energy Policy; Wendell Pritchett, Provost Professor of Practice, Department of City and Regional Planning; Chair Professor, Department of Urban Planning and Design; Penn IUR added 150 new case studies to the ESCI- and Presidential Professor of Law and Education, School of Law; Eduardo Rojas, Faculty Director, Kleinman Center for Energy Policy, School of Director of the Geographic Information Systems Research Centre; KSP, focusing especially on progress being made by Lecturer in Historic Preservation, School of Design; Penn IUR Emerging Scholar Design, University of Pennsylvania Deputy Convener of the Contemporary China Studies Strategic developing economies in APEC in the ESCI-KSP’s five Mary Rocco, Post-Doctoral Researcher, Penn IUR; and eight doctoral students Research Area, University of Hong Kong content areas (transport, buildings, grids, jobs and from the Graduate Group in City and Regional Planning, School of Design. (For ABHA JOSHI-GHANI consumers, and low-carbon model towns). details on the doctoral student delegation to Habitat III, see page 82.) Senior Adviser, Public Private Partnerships, The World Bank For more information, visit: globalurbancommons.org For more information, visit: The Habitat III conference attracted more than 30,000 attendees, including diplomats KYUNG-HWAN KIM esci-ksp.org from UN member states, along with mayors and a wide range of stakeholders. Professor, School of Economics, Sogang University; former President, Korea Research Institute for Human Settlements; For more information, visit: Immediate Vice Minister, Republic of Korea; Vice Minister, penniur.upenn.edu/habitat3 ABOVE: Wendell Pritchett, Penn IUR Faculty Fellow, Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport (MOLIT) Presidential Professor of Law and Education, Penn Law, and now Provost of the University, speaks in Penn IUR’s Habitat III exhibition booth, Quito, Ecuador. 32 Penn Institute for Urban Research 2016–2017 ANNUAL REPORT 33 Tex t s

Penn IUR disseminates knowledge through a variety of publications: books, briefs, journal articles, reports, and online publications. Excerpts from some of the publications created over the 2016–2017 year follow. 34 Penn Institute for Urban Research 2016–2017 ANNUAL REPORT 35

Governing the Fragmented Metropolis

CHRISTINA ROSAN The first challenge to creating more effective are barriers to their effectiveness. Rather than focusing

This selection is from metropolitan governance in the United States is helping on voluntary regionalism as a singular solution, planning Governing the Fragmented communities to recognize the benefits of a regional agencies should concentrate on formulating model Metropolis: Planning for Regional Sustainability, a approach. Evidence that localities actually benefit from state-level planning legislation that gives metropolitan book by Christina Rosan, metropolitan governance may help convince local officials planning agencies the power they need to help published by the University of Pennsylvania Press in the to give up some of their authority to regional planning municipalities meet regional objectives. For starters, fall of 2016 as part of The City agencies. Of course, it will be difficult to convince local state policy requiring that local comprehensive or master in the 21st Century book series. elected officials that it is in their best interest to create plans are consistent with local zoning is a must. The next more powerful regional institutions. The first step is to step is to promote consistency between regional and change the nature of the debate about metropolitan local plans so that regional goals are implemented at the governance so it more adequately portrays the existing local level. In addition, the impact of municipal finance on “ land-use planning framework in the United States. … land use planning must be carefully examined since the [P]lanning agencies with authority can be built from way that communities are financed is often the primary The more that a case can be made that the bottom up. They can help communities accomplish reason they develop in certain ways. Without reforms in goals that are in their best interest and can be more state-level planning frameworks and intergovernmental metropolitan planning agencies are effective at engaging local officials and addressing their financial arrangements, metropolitan planning efforts needs. What needs to be questioned are assumptions will continue to be secondary to local land use planning working with communities rather than about local land use planning and its relationship to that pays the bills. metropolitan planning agencies. The more that a case against them, the more likely it will be to can be made that metropolitan planning agencies are The tendency in the literature is to dismiss the ability working with communities rather than against them, of regions to move to more regulatory models of create political support for empowering the more likely it will be to create political support for regional planning because there is no political will to empowering these institutions so they can influence adopt strict land use regulations. When it looks like these institutions so they can influence regional development. more regulatory approaches are politically impossible, voluntary approaches are adopted. Rather than view Next, the important role of the state in metropolitan voluntary approaches as the fallback position, the cases regional development. planning needs to be recognized and promoted. States in this book demonstrate that it may be possible to can and should be the leaders in creating a regulatory and think more incrementally about creating the framework fiscal setting conducive to metropolitan cooperation. for stronger regional planning. Sometimes the most It is important to think of local, regional, and state effective policies are not the most dramatic or politically ” planning agencies in a nested framework. It needs controversial. So while there may not be the political to be asked what state policies enable metropolitan will to overhaul the state land use planning system, it planning agencies to work effectively and which policies may be politically possible to take intermediary steps. 36 Penn Institute for Urban Research 2016–2017 ANNUAL REPORT 37

Immigration and Metropolitan Revitalization in the United States

DOMENIC VITIELLO In less than a generation, the dominant image of including population shifts, economic reinvestment AND THOMAS American cities has transformed from urban crisis and growth, and housing markets. In a survey of urban SUGRUE to revitalization. Poverty, violence, job losses, and scholars taken in 1999, immigration did not make the

This selection is from the distressed schools still make headlines. But large parts list of top ten forces that had shaped U.S. cities in the Introduction to Immigration of central cities and older suburbs are attracting new twentieth century. Segregation and discrimination, and Metropolitan Revitalization in the United residents and substantial capital investment. The white flight, suburban sprawl, and other causes of urban States, a volume edited by U.S. Census Bureau’s American Community Survey crisis dominated the discussion. Nor did immigration Domenic Vitiello and Thomas Sugrue and published by the found that after decades of population loss, most of make their list of forces likely to influence cities most University of Pennsylvania America’s large old industrial cities, from Philadelphia profoundly in the twenty-first century, though they did Press in the spring of 2017 as small cities from Philadelphia to Dayton, Ohio, and Utica, New York, part of The City in the 21st to Milwaukee, grew between 2010 and 2014, as did cite integration and diversity of urban neighborhoods. have turned to immigrant and refugee recruitment and integration Century book series. forty-nine of the fifty-one largest cities in the nation “ overall. Even the two that lost population, Detroit and Yet, as demographer Dowell Myers argued in as strategies for repopulation and economic development. They Cleveland, have been the focus of intense planning response, immigration has been a “fundamental have recruited foreign companies and high-skilled workers, As the baby boom and investments in revitalization and have seen some force” determining the fortunes of American cities implemented language access and multicultural programs, and neighborhoods grow. … in the past, present, and future. Not only did mass targeted support to immigrant small business owners and ethnic generation ages and immigration fuel the birth of metropolitan America community development organizations. Some suburbs, too, have Immigration and immigrants belong at the center of this in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, supported immigrant merchants and welcoming practices in schools, Americans have fewer story of metropolitan revitalization in the United States. but the closing of U.S. borders between the 1920s and libraries, and law enforcement. … However, in most accounts of urban and suburban 1960s deprived cities of replacement population for children, arguably no revitalization, native-born empty nesters, their millennial the masses who moved out. Immigration’s absence The divergent responses to immigration by different municipalities children, and other well-educated professionals of thus played a critical, if silent and invisible, part in reflect an increasingly contested set of hopes and fears about the force will define the future the “creative class” are the agents of change. They the urban crisis. It was no accident that cities began local benefits and costs of immigration. They also reveal diverse “bring the city back” by attracting outside investors, to revive in the late twentieth century, after the visions of what is to be revitalized as well as how and for whom. of U.S. cities and suburbs patronizing galleries, restaurants, and high-end shops; Immigration and Naturalization Act of 1965 reopened Generally, social scientists agree that the fiscal costs and benefits rehabilitating historic properties; and developing new the borders, asserted Myers. And as the baby boom of immigration are unevenly distributed between and within more than immigration. houses on vacant lots. Yet in the past decade, policy generation ages and Americans have fewer children, metropolitan regions and that costs and benefits fluctuate over makers and scholars across the United States have come arguably no force will define the future of U.S. cities time, but at the national level and over the long-term immigration to understand that immigrants are driving metropolitan and suburbs more than immigration. … produces net economic gains. In the short-term, and in particular revitalization at least as much as these actors. … cities and neighborhoods, this means widely varied experiences of Immigration has gained prominence not only in our immigration and revitalization. ” Urban scholars and policy makers have only recently understanding of how metropolitan revitalization has begun considering the role of immigration in the happened but also in cities’ pursuit of growth. City recent transformations of metropolitan America, halls and economic development boosters in big and 38 Penn Institute for Urban Research 2016–2017 ANNUAL REPORT 39

Atlas for the End of the World

RICHARD WELLER [G]lobal policy settings and the satellite’s reductive view caused Nelson Mandela to remark: “I see no future for

This selection is from the October of the world are far removed from the real complexity [protected areas] unless they address the needs of 2016 Penn IUR Brief “Atlas for the of the things they hold in their pixelated gaze. communities as equal partners in their development.” End of the World: Mapping that Recognizes Interdependence of People and Conservation,” by No landscape is ever simple—protected areas in hotspots Maps that see people and conservation as intertwined Richard Weller. least of all. Demeaned as “fortress conservation” and are necessary to overcome these criticisms. These “paper parks,” protected areas are criticized for reducing are called anthromes: maps that classify landscapes

Top photo, Anthromes, from the world to a global battle ground between culture and as novel ecologies according to their various forms of “Atlas for the End of the World.” nature, for reinforcing nature as an exotic victim, and for anthropogenic modification. The University of Maryland simply turning noble savages into noble park rangers. geographer Erle Ellis argues that anthrome mapping “ For their critics, protected areas are neocolonialism signifies ‘a wholesale rethinking of ecological science writ large and green. and conservation that moves away from humans as Protected areas manifest tensions recent destroyers of pristine nature and towards Protected areas manifest tensions between the global humanity’s role as sustained and permanent stewards between the global and the local, and the local, between anthropology and biology, of the biosphere.’ … between the developed and the developing world, between anthropology and biology, and between the state and its subjects. It is this that between the developed and the developing world, and between the state and its subjects. It is this that caused Nelson Mandela to remark: ‘I see no future for [protected areas] unless they address the needs of communities as equal partners in their development.’ ” 40 Penn Institute for Urban Research 2016–2017 ANNUAL REPORT 41

Entrepreneurship & Innovation in Connecticut’s Higher Education System

CONNECTICUT Without a doubt, Connecticut is at an economic 12 community colleges with Associates degrees in WORKING GROUP tipping point. Yesterday’s manufacturing has largely engineering or technology to transition to bachelor’s ON HIGHER fled, new industries and services are slowly taking programs in the state’s senior colleges. COT’s Next EDUCATION its place—but they are not numerous enough to lift Generation Manufacturing Center, a National Science

This selection is from the state’s economy and retain its work force. In Foundation Center of Excellence, provides resources Entrepreneurship & these early years of the 21st century, Connecticut for both students and educators. Innovation in Connecticut's Higher Education System: is faced with significant challenges requiring urgent Research institutions are rapidly expanding their A Catalytic Roadmap solutions. Connecticut does have the capacity to for Higher Education technology transfer and research commercialization Collaboration, drafted by begin to reverse this situation, but there are no infrastructure, developing new proof of concept fragmented: many institutions operate programs in isolation; others Penn IUR’s Amanda Lloyd quick fixes. Positive, substantial, and meaningful and Eugénie Birch on behalf economic regrowth must begin by reestablishing centers and establishing innovation funds to help lack the administrative and financial capacity to move their students of Connecticut’s Working “ faculty and student innovators build their companies and faculty ideas to maturity. In this environment, institutions Group on Higher Education. and reenergizing the state’s culture of innovation and entrepreneurship. Today’s most prosperous centers in Connecticut. With 80% of the state’s R&D focused are not adapting effectively to the fast-moving entrepreneurial / Connecticut is of innovation and entrepreneurship, like Connecticut on biosciences, support for new ventures in the sector innovative climate that characterizes their competitors in California, in the 19th century, rely on the collective power of include UConn’s Technology Incubation Program (TIP) Massachusetts, and New York. fortunate in having 38 their institutions of higher education as essential in Farmington, Storrs, and Avery Point, and the CURE community anchors, a major force of economic Commons, in Groton. Yale, which has 12 institutes institutions of higher vitalization and leadership, and the wellspring of in the biosciences, supports extensive bioscience their creative workforce. innovation infrastructure, including the Blavatnik Fund education poised to for Innovation, with competitively awarded grants Connecticut is fortunate in having 38 institutions bridging the gap between early-stage life science expand opportunities to of higher education poised to expand opportunities research and biomedical product commercialization. to nurture a new generation of entrepreneurs and Finally, as Part 2 of this report explains, institutions nurture a new generation innovators. Nearly half of the state’s four-year degree- of higher education have been accelerating and granting institutions currently offer concentrations, expanding their support of entrepreneurship and of entrepreneurs minors and / or majors in entrepreneurial studies. innovation among students, faculty and alumni Some examples are Quinnipiac University, University significantly over the past five years. and innovators. of Hartford, University of Bridgeport, and UConn. Nine community colleges, such as Gateway However, this seeming abundance of resources is not Community College and Norwalk Community functioning as effectively as it could. Taken together College, have either an Entrepreneur certificate or the institutions have all the ingredients required to support a strong culture of innovation, yet they are ” Small Business / Entrepreneurship concentration. The College of Technology (COT) helps students at not operating together. In practice, efforts are often 42 Penn Institute for Urban Research 2016–2017 ANNUAL REPORT 43

Education Reform in the Post-NCLB Era

MATTHEW Early Childhood Education policy efforts such as the Obama administration’s STEINBERG AND RTTT-Early Learning Challenge has provided grants RAND QUINN Racial and ethnic differences in academic performance to states to improve the quality of early education

This selection is from have been identified as far back as the Coleman programs provided to children who are among the most “Education Reform in the Report five decades ago (Coleman et al., 1966). More economically disadvantaged. At the local level, cities such Post-NCLB Era: Lessons Learned for Transforming recent evidence on student achievement has revealed as New York, New York, and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Urban Public Education,” by a persistent gap in the academic performance of recently have made dramatic investments to provide Matthew Steinberg and Rand Quinn, a paper in the Penn minority students compared with that of their White greater access to high-quality pre-kindergarten (pre-K) IUR / Philadelphia Federal counterparts, a gap that emerges early in the educational programs. Given these recent efforts to expand access to Reserve working paper series school readiness, with a particular focus on the performance of (published by Cityscape in careers of students (Fryer and Levitt, 2004). Indeed, pre-K, what effect might the provision of universal pre-K racial and ethnic minority students. revised form in March 2017). minority students enter kindergarten performing below have on students’ academic success prior to entering “ their White peers, and the achievement gap grows as elementary school? The experiences of urban districts In Gormley and Gayer (2004), the authors relied on a regression students progress through the early elementary years in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and Boston, Massachusetts, provide discontinuity design that leverages the strict age cutoff required The authors found that (Fryer and Levitt, 2006). Moreover, as income inequality insight to this question. to qualify for the pre-K program. The authors found that Tulsa’s in the United States has increased in recent years, so pre-K program provides substantive benefits to eligible four- Tulsa’s pre-K program too has the achievement gap between students that Evidence From Tulsa year-old children, including significant improvements in cognitive, come from high- and low-income families (Reardon, language, and motor skill development. The authors further found provides substantive 2011). The persistent race gap in student achievement In 1998, the state of Oklahoma established a universal that the positive benefits of pre-K are greatest for Hispanic and coupled with a growing achievement gap based on pre-K program for four-year-old children, under Black children, with more limited benefits than White children. benefits to eligible family income poses a particular concern for minority which each of the state’s 543 districts could choose Economically disadvantaged children—those who qualify for free families in urban communities. Indeed, residential and to participate. A key feature of the state’s program lunch—gained more from Tulsa’s pre-K program than their more four-year-old children, economic segregation exist in most urban communities, is the requirement that all pre-K teachers have a economically advantaged counterparts. In Gormley et al. (2005), the and, left unaddressed, will continue to disadvantage the college degree and a certificate in early childhood authors found that the program positively and significantly impacted including significant educational prospects of students from very early ages. education. Moreover, these pre-K teachers received children’s performance on cognitive tests of prereading and reading Recent attention, however, in both academic compensation equal to teachers in the state’s public skills, prewriting and spelling skills, and math reasoning and problem- improvements in and policy circles has been given to the role early elementary schools. Class sizes are capped at 20 solving abilities. In Gormley (2008), the author specifically examined childhood education can play in preparing economically students with a student-to-staff ratio of 10 to 1 the impact of Tulsa’s pre-K program among Hispanic students and cognitive, language, and disadvantaged students for school and narrowing the (Gormley and Gayer, 2004). In a series of studies, found that Hispanic children realized substantial improvements in achievement gap. For example, economist James Gormley (2008), Gormley and Gayer (2004), and prereading, prewriting, and premath skills and that children whose motor skill development. Heckman has written widely on the economic benefits of Gormley et al. (2005) examined the impact of pre-K parents spoke Spanish at home, or whose parents were born in investments in early childhood education as a means for in the state’s largest urban school district, Tulsa Public Mexico, realized the greatest benefit of Tulsa’s program. reducing educational inequality (Heckman, 2011). Federal Schools, on students’ cognitive development and ” 44 Penn Institute for Urban Research 2016–2017 ANNUAL REPORT 45

The New Urban Crisis

RICHARD FLORIDA Donald Trump’s thinking about cities is a product of the he won 260 metros, compared to Clinton’s 120. But

This selection by Richard old urban crisis of the 1960s and ’70s—the staggeringly the average Trump metro was home to just 420,000 Florida, entitled “The New high rates of crime and poverty, economic and social people compared to 1.4 million for Clinton’s. Urban Crisis,” appeared in the April 2017 issue of Urban Link. dysfunction, and fiscal collapse that he witnessed in his native New York in the early years of his career. A growing number of commentators see our great cities as the major source of opposition and resistance Top photo by Bob Jagendorf, But, his stunning victory over Hillary Clinton is a product to Trump and Trumpism, and that may well be the via Flickr. of the backlash against what I have come to call the New case. But an even bigger agenda awaits. Trump or not, Urban Crisis of burgeoning economic inequality—the the nation–state has too much power. Centralization widening divides between rich and poor; the staggering might have made sense in the great age of industrial unaffordability of housing in our leading cities, tech capitalism, but it has fallen out of sync with the demands “ hubs, and knowledge-centers like New York, LA, San of urbanized knowledge capitalism. Our cities are the Francisco, Boston, Seattle, and Washington, D.C. new organizing units of our economy, and they need This New Urban Crisis is defined by what to be able to control their own destinies. This New Urban Crisis is defined by what I call “winner- I call ‘winner-take-all urbanism’ in which take-all urbanism” in which the biggest, richest, and Localism represents the only path around our most talented metros attract wildly disproportionate permanent political divide, which erupts every four the biggest, richest, and most talented shares of talent, industry, and economic assets, while year into a veritable Civil War. We have to learn to live smaller cities and towns in the Rustbelt, the Sunbelt, together and the only way to do that is to allow us to metros attract wildly disproportionate and rural regions fall farther and farther behind. Red states and Blue state and cities to live the lives they want to. Such devolution and local empowerment shares of talent, industry, and economic As narrow as Trump’s margin of victory might have may have seemed like a pipe-dream a few years ago, been, its geographical bases are unmistakable. Clinton but several forces—not the least of which is the rise assets, while smaller cities and towns took the dense, affluent, knowledge-based cities of Trump—have conspired to bring a wide range of and close-in suburbs that are the epicenters of new strange bedfellows from the left and right together in the Rustbelt, the Sunbelt, and rural economy, winning the popular vote by a substantial on this issue. margin. But Trump took everywhere else, taking 61 regions fall farther and farther behind. percent of the vote in rural places compared to 33 This is an area where a bi-partisan coalition of mayors percent for Clinton. He won 57 percent of the vote in must lead, enabling and empowering our cities and metros with less than 250,000 people, compared to 38 communities to address their own challenges and percent for Clinton. And he carried 52 percent of the problems brought on by the New Urban Crisis and ” vote in metros with between 250,000 and 500,000 positioning our economy for success in the 21st century. people, compared to 34 percent for Clinton. All told, 46 Penn Institute for Urban Research 2016–2017 ANNUAL REPORT 47

Informed Securitization

SUSAN WACHTER The housing finance system began to unravel nearly veiled growing credit risk. Securitization markets

This selection is from “Informed a decade ago, but the ghosts of its demise continue shrouded rather than revealed information on the Securitization,” by Susan to haunt us to this day. The housing finance system mounting system-wide leverage. The bursting of the Wachter, a chapter in Principles of Housing Finance Reform, remains on government life support with no clear housing bubble led to massive defaults, the collapse a volume edited by Susan plans as of this writing on when or how to resuscitate it of securitization, systemic failure, and, in response, Wachter and Joseph Tracy and published by the University of despite a substantial recovery in the overall economy. unprecedented public interventions to support the Pennsylvania Press in the fall The placement in conservatorship of Fannie Mae and financial sector and the overall economy. of 2016 as part of The City in the 21st Century book series. Freddie Mac on September 6, 2008, in the aftermath of the Great Financial Crisis (GFC) has created a de Episodes of systemic risk linked to real estate and facto government-funded housing finance system housing finance markets are endemic across countries and history. This time securitization markets were “ in the United States. More than seven years since the federal government placed these institutions at the center of the crisis. As a financial instrument, The housing finance system began to in conservatorship, they continue to remain in that MBS markets can provide information on developing status, with no established exit plan. As of the market risks. However, the structure of securitization unravel nearly a decade ago, but the ghosts beginning of 2016, Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, and markets precluded this in the GFC. … Ginnie Mae are virtually the only issuers of mortgage- With the demise of private-label residential of its demise continue to haunt us to this backed securities (MBS). The public actions taken to securitization and the conservatorships of Fannie support Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac were successful Mae and Freddie Mac, there is both an opportunity day. The housing finance system remains in their short-term aims of supporting the housing and a necessity to rethink principles of securitization market and removing the two firms as an immediate to promote systemic stability. …. Expanded HMDA on government life support with no clear source of systemic risk to the financial system. The (Home Mortgage Disclosure Act) requirements, conservatorship, however, does not achieve the goal which are set to go into effect in January of 2018, and plans as of this writing on when or how of reforming securitization markets. the new National Mortgage Database will increase The Achilles heel of the pre-crisis securitization transparency. Nonetheless, resolution of information to resuscitate it despite a substantial market, inherent in its structure, was the potential issues requires attention to the structure and regulatory for systemic instability due to credit or default risk. framework of the U.S. housing finance system. recovery in the overall economy. As lending standards declined, surging housing prices ” 48 Penn Institute for Urban Research 2016–2017 ANNUAL REPORT 49

A Midterm Report: Will Habitat III Make a Difference?

EUGÉNIE BIRCH [P]lace-based discussions occur throughout the U.N. stakeholder organization more than a year before the

This selection is from system, with many agencies engaging in urban-focused conference. Further, global agreements, especially the “A Midterm Report: Will Habitat activities. Three agencies have the most enduring Sendai Framework, SDGs, and the Paris Agreement, III Make a Difference to the World's Urban Development?,” histories in the area: U.N. Habitat, with a mandate provide a solid foundation for pursuing sustainable by Eugénie Birch, published centered on dealing with spatial issues; the Population urban development, on which the NUA drafts build. in Journal of the American Planning Association, Vol. 82, Division, with its authoritative urban database; and the Finally, transnational solidarity is fueling the explosion Iss. 4, 2016. World Bank, with its substantial lending resources. of strong civil society networks that have the capacity Of these, U.N. Habitat has recently directed its work to be fierce advocates for their interests in the NUA. from a sole concentration on housing in the Global South to a broader portfolio of sustainable urbanization … [T]he NUA drafts articulate a positive view of cities several civil society engagement platforms (e.g., policy units, GAP) are (clustering housing, planning, land management and as the fulcrum of sustainable urban development and organized, yet they are incipient and temporary. However, the NUA is a “ related governance, legislative, and finance issues), call for the implementation of a few key “development guidance document that initiates a 20-year cycle for its dissemination clearer messaging, and renewed support of coordinated enablers” (governance and planning and management and implementation. This leaves a good deal of room to spread U.N. Habitat has recently stakeholder partnerships. The reorientation, especially of urban spatial development) and “operational levers” the message, develop the necessary advocacy, and hold national the concentration of sustainable urban development, (e.g., detailed specifications including subsidiarity for governments responsible for their commitments to sustainable urban directed its work from messaging, and stakeholder ideas, are present in the governance and form-defining recommendations for development, an area in which city and regional planners worldwide New Urban Agenda (NUA). Although the NUA favors planning). The substantive message is simple and clear. have the knowledge to undertake. But do they have the will? a sole concentration on the areas of U.N. Habitat expertise, it leaves ample …[P]romising signs exist that Habitat III can have an room for other U.N. agencies to contribute. impact on the course of urban development, yet housing in the Global …[T]hree important legacies shaping Habitat III: the obstacles remain. The NUA is short, pithy, and focused. South to a broader predecessor conferences (Habitat I and II), global It is also potentially action oriented if public and private agreements, and expanded stakeholder networks. decision-makers are convinced of its importance, a portfolio of sustainable The conferences and their outcome documents task that will require a lot more advocacy. The U.N. contribute to the substantive continuity of spatial system has a number of agencies that can do their urbanization, clearer considerations in the NUA, but also reveal gaps in part to undertake supportive research and projects if meaningful civic engagement and monitoring. The they receive the financial backing from their donors. messaging, and renewed Habitat III preparatory process and the draft NUA Some legacy problems (e.g., lack of prioritization) have have continued the substantive themes and also been addressed in the NUA, whereas others remain support of coordinated offer corrections, especially in the development of to be solved (local government empowerment, rights content and direction of the draft NUA text through discussions, monitoring, and evaluation). Nonetheless, stakeholder partnerships. expanding the official inputs into the NUA, holding the message is straightforward, providing clear hearings prior to its completion, and supporting a new guidance on key elements to be implemented. Further, ” 50 Penn Institute for Urban Research 2016–2017 ANNUAL REPORT 51

Penn IUR’s expert events bring together scholars, policymakers, and decision-makers to exchange and advance ideas and research. Expert & In 2016–2017, Penn IUR convened meetings on citizen participation in building communities after disaster, the application of remote sensing technology in efforts to build sustainable cities, and on underfunded municipal pensions. Penn IUR also Faculty played a leading role in international conferences on city growth in China and urban housing in Indonesia, and partnered with Perry World House in investigations into global urbanization, migration, and demography. In addition, Penn IUR supported Convenings cross-disciplinary collaboration by Penn faculty through support of Penn’s Humanities, Urbanism, and Design (H+U+D) Initiative. 52 Penn Institute for Urban Research 2016–2017 ANNUAL REPORT 53

Symposium on Remotely Sensed Measurement for a Resilient and Sustainable Urban Future

Penn IUR works to ensure that innovations in spatial data inform projected city growth and biologically diverse habitats. (See page our understanding of urban systems. To this end, Penn IUR 38 for an excerpt from Weller’s Atlas for the End of the World, partnered with the Wharton Spatial Integration Laboratory for a Penn IUR Brief that Weller wrote summarizing his research.) Urban Systems (SILUS) and the U.S. Geological Society (USGS) Science and Decisions Center to convene a symposium entitled The symposium’s three panel sessions each focused on a different “Remotely Sensed Measurement for a Resilient and Sustainable aspect of spatial data application. In the first session, “Global Urban Future.” The September 15, 2016 symposium included a full Urban Growth and Remote Sensing Imagery,” panelists discussed day of discussions among natural and social scientists from the data sources and methods related to urban spatial growth and atmospheric, biophysical, economic, geographic, and sociological remote sensing, as well as the broader policy context within which disciplines and included a keynote address by Penn IUR Faculty these technologies and databases are being utilized. The second Fellow Richard Weller, Martin and Margy Meyerson Chair of Urbanism session, “Models and Spatial Data for a Sustainable Urban Future,” centered around the opportunities and challenges associated LEFT: Galveston, Texas after Hurricane Ike in 2008 and Professor and Chair of Landscape Architecture, Penn School (photo by U.S. Army Corp of Engineers, via Flickr). of Design. This expert convening concluded with a public event with various approaches to modeling urban spatial data, including ABOVE: The travel exchange group explored the new coupling remotely sensed data with a model that quantifies the Lafitte Greenway in New Orleans which manages entitled “Rising Sea Levels, Coastal Hazards, and Urban Resilience.” stormwater while improving connectivity between urban footprint, using census data in urban modeling, employing GIS neighborhoods and downtown. In his keynote address, Weller presented his current publication, data in urban economics research, and evaluating conservation and the Atlas for the End of the World, a series of maps that illustrate urban development policies using satellite based data. In the third conflicts between biodiversity and human settlement. The Atlas for session, “Identifying the Impact of Urban Expansion on Ecosystem the End of the World maps protected areas in the ecoregions within Services,” panelists presented examples and case studies illustrating the world’s biodiversity hotspots, illustrating conflicts between the effects of urban growth on ecosystem services.

United States–Japan Grassroots Exchange Program: Citizen Participation in Community Building Post-Disaster

In 2016–2017, Penn IUR and the East–West Laura Barron, Program Manager, initiated entities that do not have the same influence Center (EWC) completed the second year the exchange program in 2015 in an effort in Japan. Delegates from both countries of a three-year program featuring dialogue to build next-generation leadership capacity recognized the power of person-to-person and travel exchanges between Japan and and networks that engage citizens in exchanges in sharing new strategies and the United States to explore how local providing meaningful input in the long-term building optimism. leaders, small businesses, and community- recovery and rebuilding of their communities based organizations influence recovery post-disaster. The program involves 24 In the program’s first year, delegates from after a natural disaster. In December 2016, participants, including representatives from Kobe and Miyako City hosted delegates delegates from Miyako City, Iwate Prefecture nonprofit community organizations, local from New Orleans and Galveston. Next year, (hit by the Eastern Japan Earthquake and government branches, and small business Penn IUR will host a concluding conference Tsunami in 2011) and Kobe, Hyogo Prefecture groups from the four cities. During the focused on collaborative relationships (impacted by the Great Hansin Earthquake December 2016 exchange, the U.S. delegates among civil society, government, and in 1995) visited Galveston, Texas (hit by emphasized the importance of preparedness businesses in disaster recovery. Hurricane Ike in 2008) and New Orleans, and resilience in coastal areas in the United Penn IUR’s documentation of Louisiana (devastated by Hurricane Katrina States, described how demographic the program can be found on in 2005) for site visits, expert discussions, disparities have affected disaster response the “Publications” section of and an exchange of lessons learned. and recovery, and highlighted how culture can the Penn IUR website at: aid the recovery process. Japanese delegates penniur.upenn.edu/publications EWC’s Meril Dobrin Fujiki, Seminars learned about different government Development Coordinator, and Penn IUR’s LEFT: Photo by Joshua Stevens for responses as well as the power of nonprofit NASA’s Earth Observatory, using Amy Montgomery, Managing Director, and and quasi-governmental organizations, Landsat data from the USGS. 54 Penn Institute for Urban Research 2016–2017 ANNUAL REPORT 55

Penn IUR Pensions The Rise of the City in China As the country experiencing the fastest rate of urbanization in Asia, Working Group Roundtables As part of a three-year Penn IUR investigation the renewed importance of centrality for Indonesia requires major infrastructure investment as well as housing into urbanization in China supported by the urban productivity. Penn China Research and Engagement and local public services. The symposium’s three panels and its Penn IUR, under the leadership of Advisory Fund, Penn IUR and the Penn Wharton China Researchers presenting on the second Board member Mark Rosenberg, hosted a Center co-hosted a conference focused on panel, “The Contemporary Rise of the keynote address centered on the changes needed in order to provide series of roundtables in New York City as identifying new forms of urban development City: The Role of Price Indices,” provided part of its broader investigation into the and new mechanisms to finance investments evidence regarding price increases over the housing and quality public services to urban residents. problem of underfunded public pensions in infrastructure and public goods in China. past decade in Chinese cities; increases have and its implications for municipal finance. “The Rise of the City in China,” held on been particularly rapid in first-tier cities, Through these meetings, Penn IUR is November 4, 2016 in Beijing, China, drew with more moderate increases in others. exploring challenges and opportunities more than 100 scholars and practitioners In discussing these findings, participants related to market transparency and public from around the world to present and debated the strengths and weaknesses of understanding of this issue. discuss research on the past, present, and various methodological innovations in real future of urbanization in China. estate indices. Additionally, they considered Urbanization, Urban Housing, Urbanization, Migration, The first meeting, held on March 10, 2017, research demonstrating the role of price which included ten participants from finance Two of the day’s three panels focused on the indices in developing local property tax and Housing Finance in Indonesia and Demography and academia, centered around the question application of historical and contemporary systems, which could potentially serve as of transparency and, specifically, how to price indices in illuminating real estate a sustainable source of public financing for On November 7, 2016, Penn IUR Co-Director The first panel, “Redefining Urban In 2016–2017, Penn IUR continued its support promote public transparency about the trends and on the creation of sustainable Chinese cities. Susan Wachter took part in a symposium Landscape and Urbanization Trends,” of Perry World House (PWH) in exploring state of individual city pension systems. urban finance mechanisms. The day’s entitled “Urbanization, Urban Housing, emphasized the role of national and local global issues related to urbanization, migration, At the second meeting, on May 15, 2017, first panel, “Historical Price Indices: What The third panel shifted the discussion from and Housing Finance in Indonesia: Lessons governments in framing urban development and demographic change. PWH—the participants discussed the geographic and Can We Learn from Them about the sustainable urban finance to sustainable Learned and Critical Thoughts to Move and in addressing the development of University’s new hub for global engagement political variations on the basic problem of Development of Cities and Housing Prices,” urban design. Entitled “Where to Build, Forward.” Held in Jakarta, the symposium informal settlements in particular. Panelists and international policy research—officially underfunded pensions, common drivers placed the development of cities in China What to Build, and How to Build: Design for was organized by Janice Bellace, Samuel discussed the need for national policy to opened in 2016, though Penn IUR and PWH of the problem, the impact on state and in international context. Presentations Smart Cities,” the panel discussion focused A. Blank Professor of Legal Studies and support local governments and for urban commenced their partnership the previous local budgets, and successful strategies. on historical research into housing prices on research into the development of new Business Ethics, The Wharton School and policy to address environmental concerns, year, while preliminary planning and research Additional Penn IUR Pensions Working and rents across very different geographic design guidelines in Chinese cities. These Director, Tanoto Foundation and Komara including those related to flooding. The was underway. Group meetings are planned for 2017–2018 contexts showed similar findings, specifically new guidelines—developed by the Chinese Djaja, Head of Urban Studies, University second panel, “Urbanization and Challenges to further explore issues of transparency that long-term, historical stability in housing central government for incorporation by of Indonesia, with support from the for Housing Provision,” focused on informal Penn IUR Co-Director Eugénie Birch and and municipal solvency. prices has given way to rising prices in cities into their regulations—emphasize Tanoto Foundation. It gathered local and settlements, with panelists calling for Penn IUR Faculty Fellow Devesh Kapur, recent decades. Panelists suggested that walkable, mixed-use development, a international academics, policymakers, substantial investments in housing and Director, Center for the Advanced Study recent price increases could be due to a change from the monolithic superblocks and practitioners engaged in addressing infrastructure and discussing a number of of India (CASI), Madan Lal Sobti Professor slowdown in transportation innovation and characteristic of urban development in the opportunities and challenges presented initiatives that aim to improve the lives of for the Study of Contemporary India, and heightened land use regulation coupled with China in recent decades. by rapid urbanization in Indonesia. residents of informal settlements. Professor of Political Science, School of Arts and Sciences, chaired the exploration As the country experiencing the fastest rate of Wachter spoke on the third panel, “Delivering of one of PWH’s inaugural research themes: urbanization in Asia, Indonesia requires major Formal Housing for All,” on the topic of “Global Shifts: Urbanization, Migration, infrastructure investment as well as housing designing mortgage markets to enhance and Demography.” Penn IUR also assisted and local public services. The symposium’s macro stability and access. Participants in this PWH on two major events: a workshop three panels and its keynote address—by panel discussed how housing finance systems on implementing the New Urban Agenda Wahyu Utomo, Coordinating Minister for can influence housing conditions. They (December 9, 2016) and PWH’s first annual Economic Affairs—centered on the changes emphasized that different segments of the conference exploring the “Global Shifts” needed in order to provide housing and quality markets have different needs and discussed research theme (April 21, 2017). (See page public services to urban residents. the government’s role in establishing the 69 for more on these events.) Other events structure of long-term affordable and on which Penn IUR and PWH collaborated sustainable mortgage markets. in the past year include a book launch for Slums (September 27, 2016), Resiliency and SDGs in a Changing Climate (March 30, 2017), Inside Habitat III (April 3, 2017), and a photography contest on the theme of urbanization, migration, and demography. 56 Penn Institute for Urban Research 2016–2017 ANNUAL REPORT 57

OPPOSITE PAGE: H+U+D members read and discussed Penn IUR Faculty Fellow Francesa Ammon’s book, Bulldozer.

H+U+D courses took students to Paris, France (LEFT) and Venice, Italy (ABOVE). Photos by H+U+D Undergraduate City Seminars.

Penn’s Humanities, Urbanism, and Design (H+U+D) Initiative

The Penn Humanities, Urbanism, and Design (H+U+D) Initiative is a joint project of the School of Design and the “Design in the Middle Workshop,” MAXXI National Museum of Studies and Biology, School of Arts and Sciences, and Department School of Arts and Sciences, funded by the Andrew Mellon Foundation. Now in its fourth year, the five-year project the 21st Century Arts in Rome, Italy. Penn IUR Emerging Scholar of Landscape Architecture, a screening of Ben Kalina’s film Shored works to bridge the gaps between urbanists in the humanities and design disciplines. H+U+D’s core activity is the Mary Rocco, H+U+D Project Manager and Penn IUR Post-Doctoral Up (December 5, 2016). H+U+D Faculty Colloquium. In addition, the initiative sponsors several other educational and research activities. Researcher, represented the work of the initiative at the Associated Since the H+U+D Initiative’s inception, Penn IUR has provided administrative and programmatic support and Penn Collegiate Schools of Planning (ACSP) annual meeting in Portland, H+U+D also supports graduate and undergraduate courses and IUR Co-Director Eugénie Birch co-directs the initiative with Penn IUR Faculty Fellow David Brownlee, Frances Oregon. She joined other Mellon Initiative coordinators and principal student research awards. Among the fall courses offered was “Venice: Shapiro-Weitzenhoffer Professor of 19th Century European Art and Chair, Graduate Group in the History of Art, investigators, including representatives from University of California– Self-representation, Performance, and Reception,” which introduced School of Arts and Sciences. Berkeley and University of California–Los Angeles, where they students to the material and cultural landscape of Venice. In the discussed their projects and pedagogical contributions to the field spring semester, H+U+D offered a graduate seminar cross-listed Each year, the initiative welcomes a new group of faculty members from the humanities and design disciplines and of planning. More H+U+D sponsored conference presentations are with the Department of Landscape Architecture and French and invites two Junior Fellows from other institutions who have recently completed their doctoral work to participate scheduled for Fall 2017. Francophone Studies entitled “Paris and Philadelphia: Landscape and in the H+U+D Colloquium that meets biweekly to share research and foster collaboration. In 2016–2017, H+U+D Literature of the 19th Century,” sponsored a domestic city seminar Colloquium members read and discussed Penn IUR Faculty Fellow Francesca Ammon’s book, Bulldozer: Demolition Each year, Penn IUR cosponsors the H+U+D Annual Lecture. This entitled “The Wire and The City” for which students studied and and Clearance of the Postwar Landscape; toured Louis Kahn’s Esherick House and Robert Venturi’s Mother’s year’s lecturer, Alan Greenberger, Distinguished Professor of visited the city of Baltimore, and sponsored an international city House on November 12, 2016; attended When the Rain Stops Falling by Andrew Bovell at Philadelphia’s Wilma Architecture and Fellow, Lindy Institute, Drexel University, presented seminar entitled “Paris Modern” for which students visited Paris. Theater; visited the Jewish Museum in New York City to tour the “Pierre Chareau: Modern Architecture and “Reflections on Romaldo Giurgola: My Guide and Mentor” (January Design” exhibit and talk with Guest Curator Esther da Costa Meyer, Professor, Art and Archaeology, Princeton 25, 2017). Other public events in 2016–2017 included cosponsoring, Six students from across the University won research awards for University; and visited the Athenaeum of Philadelphia to view the exhibition “Laying Tracks and Laying Foundations: with Penn’s History of Art Department and the Museum of Modern 2016–2017 in a highly competitive process. Awardees who included Building for the Railroad” with Curator of Architecture Bruce Laverty. Art, a conversation with renowned American architect, planner, undergraduates and graduates undertook projects ranging from writer, and educator Denise Scott Brown (November 12, 2016) an investigation of the role of immigrant entrepreneurs in shaping Colloquium members participated in conversations about H+U+D at conferences and workshops worldwide. and cosponsoring, with Penn’s Departments of Cinema and Media their new environments to the history of newborn nurseries in Orkan Telhan, Assistant Professor, Department of Fine Arts, School of Design, represented H+U+D at the American hospitals. 58 Penn Institute for Urban Research 2016–2017 ANNUAL REPORT 59

Public Programs Penn IUR brought together scholars, practitioners, faculty, students, and the general public for a diverse array of lectures, seminars, and panel discussions throughout the year. These programs highlighted key topics in urban research and best practices of relevance to Philadelphia, the nation, and the global community. 60 Penn Institute for Urban Research 2016–2017 ANNUAL REPORT 61

Rose Molokoane, Deputy President Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia and Management Committee Member, Conference: Reinventing Our Communities: SDI (LEFT) and Victor Pineda, Transforming Our Economies President, World ENABLED, (RIGHT) received the 2017 Penn IUR cosponsored the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia’s seventh biennial Penn IUR Urban Leadership Awards. conference on issues related to building shared prosperity in urban communities. The conference, held September 21–23, 2016 on the theme of “Reinventing Our Communities: Transforming Our Economies,” explored how communities can connect people, place, and capital to transform local and regional economies in an inclusive way.

The conference opened with a plenary session, “Building an Inclusive, Transformative Economy,” a welcome by Theresa Singleton, Vice President and Community Affairs Officer, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia and a talk by Xavier de Souza Briggs, Vice President, Economic Opportunity and Markets, Ford Foundation. Briggs reflected on how foundations are redefining their funding approaches to address inequitable underlying systems. He was then joined by other thought-leaders in a discussion of the education, job training, and innovation initiatives needed to prepare communities for a changing economy.

Gabriela Ramos, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) Special Counsellor to the Secretary-General, Chief of Staff, and Sherpa to the G20, provided the conference’s keynote speech. She highlighted the critical role that leadership plays in addressing inequality in cities worldwide and introduced the OECD–Ford Foundation Inclusive Growth in Cities Initiative, a campaign to increase awareness of rising inequalities, to refocus the debate on concrete solutions, and to empower local governments in leading the transition towards more inclusive growth; central to the campaign is the creation of a network of “Champion Mayors” to promote inclusive growth in an increasingly global marketplace. Penn IUR 13th Annual Urban Leadership Awards Over the course of the three-day convening, over 100 national and international speakers shared emerging strategies and innovative approaches to fostering equitable economic growth with a diverse audience of planners, elected officials, academics, On April 25, 2017, Penn IUR held its A veteran of the anti-apartheid struggle, and was awarded the UN-Habitat Scroll of bankers, community developers, foundation leaders, and students. Participants in 13th annual Urban Leadership Forum, Rose Molokoane is an internationally Honor in 2005 for her struggle to bring land breakout sessions identified potential strategies, based on empirical research, to “Creating Cities of Inclusion and Equality,” recognized grassroots activist involved and homes to the poor. improve opportunities for low-income people in terms of education, skills, jobs, presenting Urban Leadership Awards to in land tenure and housing issues. She is Victor Santiago Pineda is a globally and housing, focusing on topics such as where affordable housing should be built, Rose Molokoane, Deputy President and a leader in SDI, a global network of slum connecting communities to capital through collaboration, addressing gentrification Management Committee Member, Shack/ dweller federations in 33 countries across recognized expert on disability policy. He teaches courses on planning theory, policy and neighborhood change in an equitable way, and preparing today’s workforce for Slum Dwellers International (SDI); National the Global South, as well as of FEDUP, tomorrow’s jobs, among others. Federal Reserve Presidents Patrick Harker, Dennis Coordinator, South Africa Alliance and the which has helped more than 150,000 slum evaluation, and international community development and serves as a public member Lockhart, and Loretta Mester closed the conference with a talk about the Federal Federation of the Urban Poor (FEDUP); dwellers, the vast majority of whom are Reserve’s role in transforming economies. and Chair, UN-Habitat’s World Urban women, to pool their savings and improve of the U.S. Architectural and Transportation Campaign, and Victor Santiago Pineda, their lives. She has initiated federations of Barriers Compliance Board. Previously, Six joint Penn IUR / Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia working papers were President, World ENABLED and Adjunct savings schemes throughout Africa, Asia, Pineda was Senior Research Fellow, Haas distributed at the conference and published in the March 2017 special issue of the Professor, Department of City and Regional and Latin America and is herself a member Institute for a Fair and Inclusive Society at journal Cityscape, guest edited by Penn IUR Co-Director Susan Wachter; William Planning, University of California–Berkeley. of the Oukasie savings scheme in a slum the University of California–Berkeley, and Lambe, Senior Community and Economic Development Advisor, Federal Reserve The Annual Penn IUR Urban Leadership settlement outside Pretoria, South Africa. UC–Berkeley Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Bank of Atlanta; and Theresa Singleton. (See page 29 for details on this publication.) Awards recognize exemplary thinkers who In addition to her leadership of these global Research Fellow for Academic Diversity. have demonstrated the vision to revitalize NGOs, she serves as Chair, UN-Habitat’s In 2003, Pineda founded World ENABLED to improve the participation outcomes for urban centers, respond to urban crises, and World Urban Campaign (WUC), and Co- FROM TOP: Theresa Singleton, Vice President and Community Affairs Officer, Federal Reserve Bank youth with disabilities through inclusive of Philadelphia; Xavier de Souza Briggs, Vice President, Economic Opportunity and Markets, Ford champion urban sustainability in the United Chair, Grassroots Constituency Group of Foundation; and Patrick Harker, President, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia, joined the discussion at research and educational programs. States and around the globe. WUC’s General Assembly of Partners (GAP), the Reinventing Our Communities conference. Photos by the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia. 62 Penn Institute for Urban Research 2016–2017 ANNUAL REPORT 63

LEFT: Photo by Jessica Bautista.

Urban Talks with Michael Nutter Penn IUR Public Interest Series SEPTEMBER 8, 2016 PENN ECONOMIC HISTORY FORUM

Penn IUR and the School of Social Policy & Practice welcomed Senior In his final talk on April 17, “Reflections on Leadership: Lessons Penn IUR hosted 30 programs throughout the year, No Price Like Home: SP2 Executive Fellow at Penn IUR Michael Nutter, Former Mayor of Learned in City Hall and Beyond,” Mayor Nutter reflected further on bringing together scholars, practitioners, faculty, Global House Prices, 1870–2012 the City of Philadelphia, on three dates in March and April for a series his time as the 98th Mayor of Philadelphia, exploring the practices students, and the general public around a diversity Speaker: of Urban Talks. Discussing his experience campaigning locally and and qualities necessary to succeed in a leadership role. Pointing of topics ranging from building urban resilience in holding office as both a City Councilman and Mayor of Philadelphia, out that the office is both near enough and powerful enough to be the face of rising sea levels to answering the call for Moritz Schularick, Professor of Mayor Nutter shared insights on the path to public service and the seen by the public as ultimately responsible for all the city’s issues, public service. Economics, The University of Bonn responsibility of governing. Supplementing his talk with video clips problems, and difficulties, Mayor Nutter described the necessity Host: and newspaper clippings, he highlighted key moments in his career of both shouldering that responsibility and of working with others. Department of History, School of Arts and Philadelphia’s history. Throughout his three presentations and his conversations with the and Sciences On March 21, 2017, Mayor Nutter gave a presentation entitled “Public audience, Mayor Nutter made clear that he finds the difficult problems Cosponsor: Service is a Calling—How Should You Answer It?” Recounting his of urban governance and policy to be truly energizing and deeply The Wharton School early years growing up in Philadelphia and attending Penn, he told important. In February 2017, Mayor Nutter was appointed Senior SP2 the story of his circuitous route to public service and his decision, Executive Fellow at Penn IUR, a non-residential post that allows him at age 25, to commit himself to it. He spoke about the people who to engage the Penn community on a regular basis on issues related supported him, described what it takes to win elections, and his own to urban policy in Philadelphia and beyond. He is also continuing to SEPTEMBER 14, 2016 experiences running for office. serve as David N. Dinkins Professor of Professional Practice in Urban PENN IUR URBAN BOOK TALK and Public Affairs at Columbia University’s School of International Bulldozer: Demolition In his second talk on April 3, 2017, Mayor Nutter focused on what and Public Affairs. Additionally, he is currently writing a book about Penn IUR Advisory Board member and former CEO and Clearance of the comes after winning the Mayoral race, discussing both the day-to-day the topics covered in his three talks this spring. ABOVE: of the American Planning Association, Paul Farmer, speaking Postwar Landscape practices of good governance as well as the necessity of handling in the Penn IUR Habitat III exhibition booth, Quito, Ecuador. unexpected calamities. In “Getting Stuff Done in a Big City: From To watch videos of Mayor Nutter’s talks, Speaker: Daily Duties to Crisis Management,” Mayor Nutter described the visit the “Events” section of the Penn IUR website: difficulties of prioritizing multiple objectives and satisfying multiple penniur.upenn.edu/events Francesca Russello Ammon, stakeholders, highlighting some of the major successes of his time Assistant Professor, City and Regional in office, such as a dramatic drop in homicides and the inculcation of Planning, School of Design an anti-corruption culture in City Hall. Cosponsor: Department of City and Regional Planning, School of Design 64 Penn Institute for Urban Research 2016–2017 ANNUAL REPORT 65

SEPTEMBER 15, 2016 SEPTEMBER 19–20, 2016 SEPTEMBER 27, 2016 OCTOBER 4, 2016

Rising Sea Levels, Coastal PERRY WORLD HOUSE GRAND OPENING, PENN IUR BOOK LAUNCH Media and Habitat III: Hazards, and Urban Resilience SPECIAL SESSION: Slums: How Informal Real How You Can Be a Part of It Urbanization, Migration, Estate Markets Work Speakers: and Demography Speakers: Michael Berman, Founder, Berman SEE SPOTLIGHT ON FOLLOWING PAGE Eugénie Birch, Co-Director, Penn IUR Consulting, LLC Highlighted Speakers: FOR MORE ON THIS EVENT. Founder and Editor-in-Chief, Eugénie Birch, Co-Director, Penn IUR Neal Peirce, Howard Kunreuther, Co-Director, Speakers: Citiscope Risk Management and Decision Devesh Kapur, Director, Center for the Eugénie Birch, Co-Director, Penn IUR Processes Center, The Wharton School Advanced Study of India (CASI), Madan Mythili Sampathkumar, U.S. Editor, Lal Sobti Professor for the Study Sebastian Galiani, Professor of Cities Today Marion McFadden, Vice President of of Contemporary India, and Professor Economics, University of Maryland Ariella Cohen, Editor-in-Chief, Next City Policy, Enterprise Community Solutions of Political Science, Penn School of Arts Devesh Kapur, Director, Center for and Sciences Cosponsor: Walter Meyer, Principal, Local Office the Advanced Study of India (CASI), Perry World House Landscape Architecture Host: Madan Lal Sobti Professor for the Perry World House Study of Contemporary India, and Wayne Pathman, Co-Founder and Professor of Political Science, Managing Partner, Pathman Lewis LLC Photo by user Giro 555 SHO, via Flickr. Penn School of Arts and Sciences OCTOBER 15–20, 2016

Jamie Springer, Senior Principal, Bishwapriya Sanyal, Ford International UN-HABITAT III CONFERENCE EXHIBITION: HR&A Advisors, Inc. SEPTEMBER 20, 2016 Professor of Urban Development and The Role of Sustainable Planning and Director of the Special Harriet Tregoning, Principal Deputy Urbanization in the New Brexit: Territorial Inequality Program in Urban and Regional Studies, Urban Agenda Assistant Secretary, Office of and the Future of Nations Community Planning and Development, Massachusetts Institute of Technology U.S. Department of Housing and Urban See page 31 for more on Penn IUR’s Speakers: Susan Wachter, Co-Director, Penn IUR Development (HUD) exhibit at Habitat III. Andrés Rodríguez-Pose, Cosponsors: Cosponsor: Professor of Economic Geography, President of the Regional Science Perry World House and the Center for Penn’s Initiative for Global Environmental the Advanced Studies of India (CASI) Leadership (IGEL) Association International, London School of Economics

Gilles Duranton, Dean’s Chair in Real Estate Professor, Chair, Real Estate Department

Joao Gomes, Howard Butcher III Professor of Finance

Cosponsor: Perry World House 66 Penn Institute for Urban Research 2016–2017 ANNUAL REPORT 67

NOVEMBER 9, 2016 David Skeel, S. Samuel Arsht Professor of Corporate Law, The Urbanization–Construction– University of Pennsylvania Migration Nexus in Five Cities SPOTLIGHT ON PENN IUR BOOK LAUNCH: in South Asia James Spiotto, Managing Director Slums: How Informal Real Estate Markets Work of Chapman Strategic Advisors LLC Speaker: Penn IUR, Perry World House, and the Center for Sanyal put the question of improving conditions Senior Director, Sunil Kumar, Former Dean of Graduate John Sugden, the Advanced Study of India (CASI) cosponsored on for residents of informal settlements in historical Studies and Lecturer, Department Sector Lead, U.S. Public Finance, September 27, 2016 the launch of the book Slums: How context; he noted that what we now refer to as of Social Policy, London School of S&P Global Ratings Informal Real Estate Markets Work, a recent release “informal real estate markets” were once considered Economics and Political Science in the Penn Press / Penn IUR The City in the 21st blight, and discussed the principal historical Nancy Winkler, Former City Treasurer, Century book series. Penn IUR Co-Directors Eugénie approaches to improving conditions in informal Cosponsors: City of Philadelphia Birch and Susan Wachter, who edited the volume settlements (in-situ upgrading, granting private Perry World House and with Shahana Chattaraj, Post-Doctoral Research property rights to residents, and redevelopment). Penn School of Design Fellow, Comparative Public Policy, Blavatnik School Drawing lessons from past improvement efforts, NOVEMBER 16, 2016 of Government, University of Oxford, spoke with Sanyal argued that, if future efforts are to succeed, Penn IUR Faculty Fellow Devesh Kapur, Director, researchers and policymakers need to better PENN GIS DAY 2016: NOVEMBER 10, 2016 CASI and Madan Lal Sobti Professor for the Study understand the housing preferences of the people How Will Open Data of Contemporary India and Professor of Political living in informal settlements and the varying PENN IUR C21 BOOK LAUNCH Drive Government and Professor Science, Penn School of Arts and Sciences, and impacts of policy packages across different contexts. Public Pensions and City Solvency For-Profit Innovation? book contributors Sebastian Galiani, Professor of Bishwapriya Kapur took a close look at an important factor in the Economics, University of Maryland, and Bishwapriya Speakers: Speakers: Indian context: the near-absence of property taxes. President and CEO, Sanyal argued Sanyal, Ford International Professor of Urban Alex Brown, Research Manager, Robert Cheetham, While he noted that expanding taxation of property Development and Planning, Massachusetts Institute National Association of State Retirement Azavea is politically difficult, Kapur argued that an efficient that, if future of Technology School of Architecture + Planning. Administrators (NARSA) property tax system is essential for generating revenue Stacey Mosley, Founder, fixlist.co efforts are Wachter opened the event by introducing the panelists for urban public goods and services, including for Partner, Municipal Market Matt Fabian, Tom Shenk, Chief Data Officer, and the book, which explores relationships among investments that benefit residents of informal to succeed, Analytics, LLC City of Chicago informality, state policies, and market forces from a settlements. He noted, too, another challenging Managing Director, Head researchers and range of disciplines and across a variety of scales, and political reality: the withholding of services from Peter Hayes, Andrew Turner, Director, ESRI R&D asking Galiani to discuss the impacts of formalizing informal settlements as a means of keeping residents of Municipal Bonds Group, BlackRock policymakers informal settlements. He detailed his research beholden to politicians for assistance. Cosponsors: Robert Novy-Marx, Lori and Alan with Ernesto Shargrodsky, President, Universidad Master of Urban Spatial Analytics, need to better S. Zekelman Professor of Business Torcuato Di Tella, on a natural experiment in which Birch closed the panel discussion by lauding the Department of City and Regional Administration, Simon Business School, they compared two groups of informal settlement grassroots efforts to ensure that politicians respond Planning, and the Wharton GIS Lab understand University of Rochester dwellers in Buenos Aires that were identical aside from to residents of informal settlements and explaining the role of the New Urban Agenda in furthering the housing one factor: one group had received title to the land they Mathew McCubbins, Professor of Law policies that will improve the lives of such residents. preferences of inhabited and the other group had not. Through this and Political Science, Duke University natural experiment, Galiani explained, they found As she explained, the New Urban Agenda will help the people living that families that received title saw an increase in the determine governance strategies that hold leaders Richard Ravitch, Former Lieutenant value of their homes (though likely not due to better accountable, identify development best practices for Governor, State of New York in informal access to credit, as some researchers had theorized) an increasingly urban world, and establish financing Allison Schrager, Contributor, Quartz as well as changes to their family size and structure. systems to fund both international development and settlements. local governments. 68 Penn Institute for Urban Research 2016–2017 ANNUAL REPORT 69

DECEMBER 8–9, 2016 JANUARY 24, 2017

PERRY WORLD HOUSE WORKSHOP: Pricing Carbon: Advancing the New Urban Lessons from Canada Agenda in a Shifting World SPOTLIGHT ON PERRY WORLD HOUSE PARTNERSHIP: Speakers: Advancing the New Urban Agenda in a Shifting World SEE SPOTLIGHT ON RIGHT PAGE Gitane De Silva, Alberta’s Senior and Global Shifts Conference FOR MORE ON THIS EVENT. Representative to the United States, Canadian Embassy Penn IUR’s partnership with Perry World House (PWH) to explore global Host: issues related to urbanization, migration, and demographic change Perry World House Jim Hines, Professor of Law and continued in 2016–2017 (for more on the partnership, see page 55) with Co-Director, Law and Economics Penn IUR assisting PWH on two major events: a workshop on implementing Program, University of Michigan the New Urban Agenda and PWH’s first annual conference exploring its JANUARY 23, 2017 inaugural theme “Global Shifts: Urbanization, Migration, and Demography.” Jon Mitchell, Vice President Environment and Sustainability, Cenovus ABOVE: Ashley Napier, Global Initiatives Fellow at Penn Global, took the winning PENN IUR URBAN BOOK TALK Following Penn IUR and PWH travel to Quito for Habitat III (see page 31), photo, “Swayambhunath Monkey,” as part of a contest for the Global Shifts symposium event. The photo was taken in Nepal in December of 2014. experts from academia, government bodies, the media, and nonprofit The Unbanking of America: Host: organizations gathered on December 9, 2016 to find ways to implement How the New Middle Kleinman Center for Energy Policy Class Survives the New Urban Agenda, a set of global standards for sustainable urban Cosponsor: development formally adopted at Habitat III. “Advancing the New Urban Speaker: Canadian Consulate of New York Agenda in a Shifting World: A Multi-Stakeholder Workshop,” convened by Lisa Servon, Professor of City and PWH and cosponsored by Penn IUR and the Kleinman Center for Energy Regional Planning, Penn School of Design Policy, identified critical components for effective implementation of the New Urban Agenda through a series of multi-stakeholder conversations. JANUARY 25, 2017 Cosponsor: With an explicit focus on inclusive implementation, the workshop sought Penn School of Design H+U+D Annual Lecture to find ways to advance the New Urban Agenda in the context of the broad featuring Alan Greenberger demographic shifts transforming the global population. In particular, it sought to identify interdisciplinary academic research questions and Speaker: policy gaps to which Penn and other academic institutions can contribute. Alan Greenberger, Distinguished On April 21, 2017, discussions about inclusive urbanization continued at Professor and Fellow, Drexel University PWH’s first annual conference exploring the sustainability of urbanization, and former Deputy Mayor of Economic the unprecedented scale of migration, and the consequences of worldwide Development and Commerce demographic change. “Global Shifts: Urbanization, Migration, and Host: Demography: An Examination of Marginalization and Inequality,” was Humanities, Urbanism, and Design convened by PWH and cosponsored by Penn IUR and others. Samantha (H+U+D) Initiative Power (HON’15), U.S. Permanent Representative to the United Nations (2013–2017), gave the keynote address, speaking on the worldwide refugee crisis. At the symposium, Penn IUR and PWH revealed the winners of a related photography contest (see winning photograph, left). Penn IUR also welcomed symposium participants to its annual MUSA Earth Day event, which took place during the symposium’s lunch break, featuring Deborah Balk, Associate Director, Institute for Demographic Research, City University of New York (CUNY). 70 Penn Institute for Urban Research 2016–2017 ANNUAL REPORT 71

FEBRUARY 2, 2017 MARCH 21, APRIL 3, AND APRIL 17, 2017

Media, Communication, Lecture series with Michael and the City Nutter, former Mayor of the City of Philadelphia and Senior SEE SPOTLIGHT ON RIGHT PAGE SP2 Executive Fellow at Penn IUR FOR MORE ON THIS EVENT. See page 62 for more on this lecture series. Speakers: Michael Delli Carpini, Walter H. Cosponsor: Annenberg Dean and Professor of Penn School of Social Policy & Practice SPOTLIGHT ON: Communication, Annenberg School Media, Communication, and the City for Communication In honor of Penn’s 2016–2017 Year of the Media, the School of Social Policy & Practice is helping John Jackson, Jr., Dean, Richard Perry MARCH 28, 2017 Penn IUR hosted a conversation on February 2, its faculty to make their research accessible and University Professor and Penn Integrates 2017 entitled “Media, Communication, and the comprehensible to people outside of academia. PENN IUR BOOK LAUNCH Knowledge (PIK) Professor, Penn School Governing the Fragmented City.” Panelists Michael Delli Carpini, Walter H. SP2’s “Penn Top 10,” for example, is a web-based of Social Policy & Practice Metropolis: Planning for Annenberg Dean and Professor of Communication, multimodal initiative in which SP2 experts identify Regional Sustainability Annenberg School for Communication; John and analyze the nation’s most important social Frederick Steiner, Dean and Paley Jackson, Jr., Dean, Richard Perry University justice and policy issues (penntopten.com). Professor, Penn School of Design Professor and Penn Integrates Knowledge (PIK) Speaker: Professor, School of Social Policy & Practice; and Steiner’s presentation shifted the conversation to Supported by: Christina Rosan, Professor of Panelist Frederick Steiner, Dean and Paley Professor, School Philadelphia and, in particular, to the local media’s Penn’s Office of the Provost Geography, Temple University of Design, were joined by moderator and Penn IUR involvement in conversations on urban and design Michael Delli topics. He said that the city’s proliferation of media Cosponsor: Co-Director Eugénie Birch to discuss the media’s outlets covering urban issues, the existence of local University of Pennsylvania Press Carpini discussed role in promoting equality and shared prosperity. MARCH 20, 2017 critics with architecture and design beats, and the recent trends that Penn IUR Co-Director Susan Wachter introduced variety of community design initiatives at institutions PENN IUR URBAN BOOK TALK the panelists and the evening’s topic. Carpini gave such as Penn puts Philadelphia at the forefront of The Strip: Las Vegas and have combined the first presentation, discussing the causes and media and urban design experimentation. the Architecture of the to blur the consequences of the current media environment. American Dream He identified four social and economic trends that Following panelist presentations, Birch moderated distinctions have evolved over decades to create today’s media a discussion in which panelists recognized the Speaker: landscape: explosive growth in the number of media impossibility of predicting the future of the media Stefan Al, Professor of City and between outlets, deregulation of media, an economic crisis landscape, delved deeper into the relationships Regional Planning, School of Design between academics and journalists in their efforts interpersonal within the industry, and a dramatic decline in public trust in news media. These trends, he said, to communicate complex concepts to the public, communication have combined to blur the distinctions between and acknowledged aspects of communication that interpersonal communication and mass media, go beyond the transfer of information. and mass media, entertainment and news, fact and opinion. While this This event was made possible with the support state of affairs has incredible democratic potential, entertainment and of the Office of the Provost. To watch a video of he said, it also requires active, critical engagement. the discussion, visit the “Events” section of news, fact Jackson focused on the role of faculty and academics Penn IUR’s website at: and opinion. in the new media environment, explaining how penniur.upenn.edu/events 72 Penn Institute for Urban Research 2016–2017 ANNUAL REPORT 73

MARCH 30, 2017 Cosponsors: APRIL 20–21, 2017 APRIL 21, 2017 Perry World House, Kleinman Center Resiliency and SDGs in a for Energy Policy, and Next City PERRY WORLD HOUSE CONFERENCE: MUSA Earth Day 2017: Changing Climate Global Shifts in Focus: Urbanization, Migration and Habitat 3 photo by Agencia de Noticias ANDES, via Flickr. Marginalization & Inequality Climate Change: What Can We Speakers: Learn From a Spatial Perspective? Howard Neukrug, Professor of Practice, SEE SPOTLIGHT ON PAGE 69 APRIL 10, 2017 Penn School of Arts and Sciences, FOR MORE ON THIS EVENT. Speaker: Principal, CASE Environmental LLC Deborah Balk, Associate Director of the PENN IUR BOOK LAUNCH Highlighted Speakers: CUNY Institute for Demographic Research Frederick Steiner, Dean and Paley Principles of Housing Jockin Arputham, President, Slum/ Professor, Penn School of Design Finance Reform Shack Dwellers International and Perry Cosponsor: The U.S. Mortgage Market: World House Visiting Fellow Master of Urban Spatial Analytics (MUSA) Henk Ovink, Special Envoy for International What Does the Future Hold Water Affairs, Kingdom of the Netherlands for Credit Risk and Access? Aisa Kirabo Kacyira, Deputy Executive and Principal, Rebuild by Design Director, UN-Habitat Speakers: APRIL 21, 2017 Cosponsors: Deborah Balk, Associate Director, CUNY Greg Boester, Managing Director, Earth Day 2017 / 1970 Perry World House, Kleinman Center for JPMorgan Institute for Demographic Research Energy Policy, and Humanities+Urbanism+ Assistant Secretary Speakers: Design (H+U+D) Initiative Peter Carroll, Executive Vice President, Anne C. Richard, of State for Population, Refugees, and Eugénie Birch, Co-Director, Penn IUR Photo by R. Kennedy for Visit Philadelphia™ Mortgage Policy and Counterparty Relations, Quicken Loans Migration (2012–2017) and Perry World House Visiting Fellow Frederick Steiner, Dean and Paley Professor, Penn School of Design Gerron Levi, Director of Policy and APRIL 4, 2017 Government Affairs, National Community T. Alexander Aleinikoff, Professor and Richard Weller, Martin and Margy Reinvestment Coalition Director, Zolberg Institute on Migration The Moment to Get Cities Right: and Mobility, the New School for Social Meyerson Chair of Urbanism and Professor and Chair of Landscape Architecture Inside Habitat III, the Urbanization Barry Zigas, Director of Housing for Research, former Commissioner, UN High Summit of a Generation Consumer Federation of America Commission for Refugees Hosts: Penn School of Design and Penn School Speakers: Arafat Jamal, Head, Inter-Agency of Design Student Council Mark Alan Hughes, Faculty Director, Coordination, UN High Commission APRIL 11, 2017 Kleinman Center for Energy Policy, for Refugees Photo of Projected Surface Temperature Changes 2081–2100, from Atlas for the End of the World. Professor of Practice, Penn School of Design FILM SCREENING AND DISCUSSION Kica Matos, Director, Center for Community Ian Klaus, Perry World House Visiting Changing Face of Harlem Change, Immigrant Rights and Racial Justice Fellow, Former Senior Advisor for Global Speaker: Cities, U.S. Department of State Susan Martin, Founder, Institute for the Shawn Batey, Filmmaker Study of International Migration, Georgetown Sarah Wu, Deputy Director, Office of University; and the Donald G. Herzberg Host: Sustainability, City of Philadelphia Professor Emerita of International Migration Department of City and Regional Ariella Cohen, Editor-In-Chief, Next City Planning, Penn School of Design Host: Perry World House Tom Dallessio, President, CEO, and Photo by Internews Europe, via Flickr. Publisher, Next City 74 Penn Institute for Urban Research 2016–2017 ANNUAL REPORT 75

MAY 8, 2017 MAY 13, 2017

Roundtable on Resilience Nature and Cities: A Panel and the Miami Public Realm Speakers: Speakers: Jose Alminana, Principal, Andropogon Debra McCarty, Philadelphia Water Commissioner Adrian Benepe, Senior Vice President and Director of City Park Development, Richard Freeh, City Energy Project Trust for Public Land Manager at Mayor’s Office of Sustainability Carol Franklin, Principal, Andropogon Piet Dircke, Arcadis Global Leader Water Management Catherine Seavitt Nordenson, Associate Professor of Architecture, Host: City College of New York Department of City and Regional Planning “You change the context, you Frederick Steiner, Co-editor, Nature and Cosponsor: Cities: The Ecological Imperative in Urban change the laws, you change Kleinman Center for Energy Policy Design and Planning and Dean and Paley Professor, Penn School of Design attitudes, and then all of a Richard Weller, Martin and Margy sudden something that would Meyerson Chair of Urbanism and Professor and Chair of Landscape have seemed like an inevitable Architecture, School of Design

Host: path into a marginal and Penn School of Design dependent status, or a path towards poverty, or a path towards not being able to contribute to society, actually turns into a path towards empowerment, towards power, and towards the ability to change the world.”

—VICTOR PINEDA, AT THE APRIL 25, 2017 PENN IUR URBAN LEADERSHIP FORUM 76 Penn Institute for Urban Research 2016–2017 ANNUAL REPORT 77

Instructional Support

Penn IUR provides opportunities for undergraduate and graduate students at all levels of study pursuing urban scholarship. Penn IUR coordinates the Undergraduate Urban Research Colloquium (UURC), supports the Master of Urban Spatial Analytics (MUSA) program, and hosts events open to urban- focused doctoral students across the University. 78 Penn Institute for Urban Research 2016–2017 ANNUAL REPORT 79

Penn IUR Undergraduate Urban Research Colloquium Master of Urban Spatial Analytics

Each year, Penn IUR sponsors the Undergraduate Urban Research representing the School of Arts and Sciences and School of Design The Master of Urban Spatial Analytics (MUSA) is a nine-month graduate program coupling spatial analysis Colloquium (UURC), an advanced research seminar for undergraduate participated in the program. Over the course of the semester, skills—most notably Geographic Information Systems (GIS)—with substantive knowledge in a selection of urban scholars with an interest in urban-focused research from across the students visited the Architectural Archives at Penn, attended a content areas including criminology, design, economic and community development, education, local and state University. Held each spring semester, this seminar provides students documentary film screening, and participated in data gathering government administration, public health, real estate, urban land use planning, social welfare, transportation, with urban research experience and connects them with faculty and sharing exercises to further their analytic skills. Faculty and and urban demography. While many university and college programs offer certificates in GIS, Penn offers a mentors with expertise in the their fields of interest. Students researchers from across the University visited the class to present unique master’s degree that integrates spatial analysis with multiple urban disciplines. MUSA is administered receive credits through the School of Design’s City and Regional various approaches to urban inquiry, including presentations on by the School of Design with support from Penn IUR and a university-wide Academic Committee. The program Planning Department or the School of Arts and Sciences Urban spatial analytics for public policy, ethnography in India, participatory draws on teaching and research faculty from the schools of Design, Engineering, Business, and Public Health. Studies Program. research in immigrant neighborhoods, and food insecurity among recipients of the supplemental nutrition assistance program (SNAP). In the spring of 2017, Penn IUR sponsored the 13th annual UURC. Academic Committee This year, six undergraduate students representing the School of UURC topics of study and student–faculty teams this year were: Arts and Sciences and The Wharton School and six faculty mentors JOHN LANDIS IRMA ELO Academic Director, Master of Urban Spatial Professor of Sociology, School of Arts and Sciences Analytics, Crossways Professor of City and Regional Planning, School of Design AMY HILLIER Crystallizing a Discourse of ‘Khalijiness’: In My Back Yard: Housing Insecurity and Informal Associate Professor of Social Policy and Practice, Exclusion and Citizenship in the Arab Gulf States Responses in Cape Town, South Africa KEN STEIF Department of City and Regional Planning, School Program Director, Master of Urban Spatial of Design STUDENT: KHALED ABDULKARIM STUDENT: MIRA KAPLAN Huntsman Program, The Wharton School Urban Studies, School of Arts and Sciences Analytics, School of Design JANICE MADDEN FACULTY MENTOR: HEATHER SHARKEY FACULTY MENTOR: EUGÉNIE BIRCH DAVID BELL Professor of Regional Science, Sociology, Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, City and Regional Planning, School of Design Xinmei Zhang and Yongge Dai Professor, Urban Studies, and Real Estate, School of Arts School of Arts and Sciences Professor of Marketing, The Wharton School and Sciences and The Wharton School

EUGÉNIE BIRCH TONY SMITH Co-Director, Penn IUR; Lawrence C. Nussdorf Professor of Systems Engineering and Conventional Benefits? Examining the Revitalization Urban Ageing Policies in Philadelphia and Daegu Professor of Urban Research and Education, Regional Science, Department of Electrical Outcomes of the 2016 Democratic and Republican Department of City and Regional Planning, and Systems Engineering, School of Engineering National Conventions in Philadelphia and Cleveland STUDENT: SEYEON KIM Sociology, School of Arts and Sciences School of Design and Applied Science STUDENT: NOAH HOLLIN Urban Studies, School of Arts and Sciences FACULTY MENTOR: HANS-PETER KOHLER CHARLES BRANAS DANA TOMLIN Sociology, School of Arts and Sciences Professor of Epidemiology in Biostatistics Professor of Landscape Architecture, Department FACULTY MENTOR: MARY ROCCO and Epidemiology, Department of Biostatistics of Landscape Architecture, School of Design Urban Studies, School of Arts and Sciences and Epidemiology, Perelman School of Medicine SUSAN WACHTER DENNIS CULHANE Co-Director, Penn IUR; Sussman Professor, Professor and Dana and Andrew Stone Chair in Professor of Real Estate and Finance, The Preservation of Historic Sounds: Martin Wagner, Urban Planner in Exile: Social Policy; Co-Principal Investigator, Actionable The Wharton School Community Efforts to Restore and Maintain An Exploration of the Physical Manifestations of Intelligence for Social Policy; Director of Research, the Paul Robeson and John Coltrane Houses Martin Wagner’s Theoretical and Philosophical Ideas National Center on Homelessness among Veterans, DOUGLAS WIEBE Social Policy & Practice Associate Professor of Epidemiology, STUDENT: MICHAEL JEAN STUDENT: ANDRO MATHEWSON History and English, School of Arts and Sciences Germanic Languages, School of Arts and Sciences Perelman School of Medicine

FACULTY MENTOR: MOLLY McGLONE FACULTY MENTOR: ANNA VALLYE Urban Studies, School of Arts and Sciences Architecture, School of Design 80 Penn Institute for Urban Research 2016–2017 ANNUAL REPORT 81

Public Programming

Every year, Penn IUR partners with MUSA to provide a lunch speaker Penn IUR also works with the MUSA program to host a GIS Day series, GIS Day event, and Earth Day programming. event each fall and an Earth Day event each spring. Penn GIS Day, held on November 16, 2016, focused on the importance of open The Penn IUR lunch speaker series focuses on real-life applications data in public and private organizations for driving innovation. It of geographic information systems and spatial analysis. In 2016– featured a keynote address by Robert Cheetham, President and 2017, Penn IUR brought in five professionals to share with MUSA CEO, Azavea, followed by a panel discussion with Stacey Mosley, students how they apply current tools to urban problems and to Founder, fixlist.co; Tom Shenk, Chief Data Officer, City of Chicago; and speak about the evolving professional landscape. The 2016–2017 Andrew Turner, Director of ESRI Research and Development Center. speakers included: Penn IUR celebrated Earth Day 2017 on April 21, 2017 with a talk by ͟͟ Grant Ervin, Deputy Geographic Information Officer, Deborah Balk, Associate Director, CUNY Institute for Demographic Enterprise Services, City of Philadelphia Research, on forced migration due to climate change. The was part of the Perry World House Global Shifts Conference on the same day. ͟͟ Tim Haynes, GIS Analyst, City of Philadelphia ͟͟ Laura Ancona, Senior Data Scientist of Web Analytics, Office of Open Data and Digital Transformation, City of Philadelphia ͟͟ Ken Steif, MUSA Program Director; Founder, Urban Spatial ͟͟ Daniel Aldana Cohen, Assistant Professor, Sociology, Penn School of Arts and Sciences Students

In order to complete the degree, students must complete a capstone MUSA students go on to hold professional positions in a diversity project that applies spatial analysis to an urban content area. Final of fields in the public and private sectors. Exemplary positions projects in 2017 included: include: Malaria Analyst, Clinton Health Access Initiative, Harare, Zimbabwe; GIS Specialist, University of Tennessee Health Science ͟͟ “Spatial Segregation by Another Name: Impact of Religion in Center, Nashville, TN; Senior Economist and Director of Geospatial Delhi, India,” Shruthi Arvind Analytics, Oxford Economics, Wayne, PA; Product Engineer, ESRI, ͟͟ “Visualizing Elderly ‘Riskscape’ in Singapore,” Dorcas Chang Yan Qin Redlands, CA; Aerial Sensor Operator, Keystone Aerial Surveys, ͟͟ “Property Values and the Second Avenue Subway,” Claire Douglass Inc., Philadelphia, PA; Programmer, Augur Intelligence Technology (Guangzhou) Co. Ltd., Guangzhou, China; Scientist, NASA, Houston, ͟͟ “Rent Affordability Analysis in Philadelphia Neighborhoods,” TX; GIS Analyst, Philadelphia Department of Health, Philadelphia, Yue Guo PA; Corporate Real Estate Strategy Director, Bank of America, ͟͟ “How does Road Network Affect Traffic Flow of Philadelphia?,” Pittsburgh, PA; Assistant Director of Planning and Evaluation, City Jingxuan Hou of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA; Property Valuation Modeler, NYC ͟͟ “Web-based Tool for Supermarket Siting & Customer Analysis Department of Finance, New York, NY; Deputy Budget Director, in San Francisco,” Tianyi Ren Program Evaluation, City of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA; Associate Director, Econsult Solutions, Philadelphia, PA; Assistant Director, ͟͟ “Smart Select: A Decision Support Tool for Commercial Real Philadelphia Redevelopment Authority, Philadelphia, PA; Director, Estate Investors,” Yun Shi Data Analytics, Department of Rehabilitation Sciences, Temple ͟͟ “Site Selection for Amazon Go in Philadelphia,” Xiaoyuan Sun (Layla) University, Philadelphia, PA; Data Journalist, Associated Press; ͟͟ “Urban Explorer—We Explore Cities with You,” Xunze (Aaron) Su Founder, Urban Spatial Analytics, LLC, Philadelphia, PA; Lecturer, Department of City and Regional Planning, Penn School of Design, ͟͟ “Web Mapping Design: Spatial and Temporal Analysis of Philadelphia, PA; and Cityworks-GIS Asset Manager, Department Community Garden in New York City,” Ziqin Wang of Public Works, City of Richmond, Richmond, VA. ͟͟ “Analyzing and Visualizing UBER Trip Data in NYC,” Mingfang Zhang ͟͟ “Pattern Detection & Prediction of Chicago Taxi Trips,” Yipei Zhang ͟͟ “Bike Smart: A Redefined Philadelphia Bike Route Recommendation App,” Jianting Zhao ͟͟ “Predicting Free-Floating Bike Share Demand in New York City,” Luyun Zhao 82 Penn Institute for Urban Research 2016–2017 ANNUAL REPORT 83

Urban Doctoral Symposium Penn IUR supports On May 12, 2017, Penn IUR, in collaboration with the Penn Urban Studies Program, hosted the 13th annual Urban Doctoral Symposium, urban-focused doctoral- which celebrated the achievements of graduating doctoral students who have completed dissertations on urban-focused topics. The level researchers by four graduating students and their topics of study were: creating opportunities for students to present Branding Against Land, Water, Infrastructure Closure: Philadelphia & People: Considerations their research and to Neighborhood Schools of Planning Distributed and the Management Stormwater Management make connections with of Risky Futures Systems

JULIA McWILLIAMS THEODORE LIM other urban scholars Anthropology and Education, City and Regional Planning, School of Arts and Sciences School of Design across disciplines. Penn IUR Urban Doctoral Student Delegation to Habitat III

Doctoral Activities Eight students from the Graduate Group in City and Regional Planning, School of Design had the opportunity to present their research to an international audience of urbanists on Healing at the Borderland Occupational Inequality, Penn IUR supports urban-focused doctoral- October 19, 2016, as part of the Penn IUR Speaker Series at the UN’s Habitat III conference. of Medicine and Religion: Racial Integration, and level researchers by creating opportunities Participating students and their topics of research included: A Folklore Study of Health the Spatial Development for students to present their research and Care in Taiwan of Maryvale, Phoenix, to make connections with other urban PATRICIO ZAMBRANO BARRAGAN “Data and Cities: New Trajectories for Urban Governance in Latin America” 1970–1990 scholars across disciplines. This year, Penn CHIA-HUI LU IUR hosted a speaker series for doctoral East Asian Studies and ANTHONY PRATCHER II students at the UN’s Habitat III conference in LAURENT CORROYER Folklore, School of Arts History, School of Arts Quito, Ecuador and cosponsored the annual “Disaster Debris Management” and Sciences and Sciences Urban Doctoral Symposium. CHANDAN DEUSKAR In addition to taking part in Penn IUR “Measuring Global Urbanization Using a Standard Definition of Urban Areas” Following welcoming remarks from Penn IUR Co-Director Susan doctoral events, a number of doctoral Wachter, Dawn Bonnell, Vice Provost for Research, and Mark Stern, students go on to become part of Penn SA MIN HAN Co-Director, Urban Studies Program offered their congratulations to IUR’s Emerging Scholars network. (See “Urban Design for Informal Settlement: The Case of Las Rehoyas, Spain” the graduating students. Elaine Simon, Co-Director, Urban Studies page 92 for more information on Penn IUR Program, School of Design, closed the event with a comment on Emerging Scholars.) KRISTA ISKANDAR the benefits of an interdisciplinary approach to studying the city “Social Aspects in Informal Settlements: The Case of Indonesia” and thanking the graduates for their work.

CHAERI KIM “Troubled Infrastructure and Uneven Impacts on Population: A Case Study During Hurricane Sandy”

SIRUS LIBIERO “Governing the Urban Periphery in India”

DAVID STANEK “Keepers of Urban Heritage: Socioeconomic Dynamics of Local Historic Districts in the Largest Cities of the United States” 84 Penn Institute for Urban Research 2016–2017 ANNUAL REPORT 85

Penn IUR People

Penn IUR’s academic and professional networks promote exploration of urban issues across disciplines and sectors while its advisory boards help shape its programs and initiatives.

Penn IUR honors the many experts who collaborate with Penn IUR on research and programming through six honorific categories: Faculty Fellows, Scholars, Emerging Scholars, Fellows, Visiting Scholars, and Affiliated Doctoral Students. Through these networks, Penn IUR aims to foster an environment that encourages cross-disciplinary connections and nurtures a collaborative spirit across the University and beyond. 86 Penn Institute for Urban Research 2016–2017 ANNUAL REPORT 87

Penn IUR Faculty Fellows and Executive Council KENNETH FOSTER JOSEPH GYOURKO Professor of Bioengineering, Department of Bioengineering, Martin Bucksbaum Professor of Real Estate, Finance, and School of Engineering and Applied Science Business Economics and Public Policy; Director, Zell / Lurie Real Penn faculty with a demonstrated interest in cities Estate Center, Department of Real Estate, The Wharton School Faculty Fellow Executive Council members are denoted with an asterisk. VIVIAN GADSDEN William T. Carter Professor of Child Development and Education; GARY HACK STEFAN AL WILLIAM BURKE-WHITE Director, National Center on Fathers and Families ; Associate Director, Professor Emeritus of City and Regional Planning, Associate Professor of Urban Design, Department Richard Perry Professor, Professor of Law, School of Law; National Center on Adult Literacy, Graduate School of Education Department of City and Regional Planning, School of Design of City and Regional Planning, School of Design Inaugural Director, Perry World House RICHARD GELLES KATHLEEN HALL FRANCESCA RUSSELLO AMMON *CAROLYN CANNUSCIO Former Dean, School of Social Policy & Practice; Joanne and Associate Professor of Education and Anthropology, Division of Assistant Professor, Department of City and Regional Planning, Assistant Professor, Department of Family Medicine and Raymond Welsh Chair of Child Welfare and Family Violence; Education, Culture, and Society, Graduate School of Education School of Design Community Health, Perelman School of Medicine Director for the Center for Research on Youth and Social Policy, Department of Child Welfare and Family Violence; Co-Director, JESSE HANDBURY DANIEL BARBER CAMILLE ZUBRINSKY CHARLES Field Center for Children’s Policy Practice and Research, Assistant Professor of Real Estate, Department of Real Estate, Assistant Professor, Department of Architecture, School of Design Professor of Sociology; Walter H. and Leonore C. Annenberg School of Social Policy & Practice The Wharton School Professor in the Social Sciences; Chair, Department of Africana DAVID BARNES Studies, Department of Sociology, School of Arts and Sciences EDWARD GEORGE *IRA HARKAVY Director of Health and Societies Major and Associate Universal Furniture Professor of Statistics, Department of Associate VP and Founding Director of the Barbara and Professor, Department of History and Sociology of Science, RAM CNAAN Statistics, The Wharton School Edward Netter Center for Community Partnerships School of Arts and Sciences Professor; Program Director, Program for Religion and Social Policy Research; Faculty Director, Goldring Reentry Initiative, RAFFAELLA FABIANI GIANETTO SARA HELLER JONATHAN BARNETT School of Social Policy & Practice Assistant Professor, Department of Landscape Architecture, Assistant Professor of Criminology, Department of Criminology, Professor Emeritus of Practice in City and Regional Planning, School of Design School of Arts and Sciences Department of City and Regional Planning, School of Design DANIEL ALDANA COHEN Daniel Aldana Cohen, Assistant Professor, Sociology, KAREN GLANZ JOAN HENDRICKS JERE BEHRMAN School of Arts and Sciences George A. Weiss University Professor, School of Nursing; The Gilbert S. Kahn Dean, School of Veterinary Medicine William R. Keenan, Jr. Professor of Economics, Professor of Epidemiology, Perelman School of Medicine; Department of Economics, School of Arts and Sciences *DENNIS CULHANE Senior Scholar, Center for Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics AMY HILLIER Professor and Dana and Andrew Stone Chair in Social Policy; Associate Professor, Co-Director, Department of City and DAVID BELL Co-Principal Investigator, Actionable Intelligence for Social Policy; ANDREA GOULET Regional Planning, School of Design Xinmei Zhang and Yongge Dai Professor, Professor of Director of Research, National Center on Homelessness among Professor of Romance Languages; Graduate Chair, French; Marketing, Department of Marketing, The Wharton School Veterans, School of Social Policy & Practice French and Francophone Studies, School of Arts and Sciences *RENATA HOLOD College of Women Class of 1963 Term Professor in the EUGÉNIE BIRCH THOMAS DANIELS DAVID GRAZIAN Humanities, Department of History of Art, School of Arts and Co-Director, Penn IUR; Lawrence C. Nussdorf Professor of Urban Professor; Director, Land Use and Environmental Planning Associate Professor of Sociology; Graduate Chair, Sociology, Sciences; Curator, Near East Section, Museum of Archaeology Research and Education, Chair of Graduate Group, Department Concentration, Department of City and Regional Planning, School of Arts and Sciences of City and Regional Planning, School of Design School of Design MARK ALAN HUGHES JEANE ANN GRISSO Professor of Practice, Department of City and Regional Planning; *CHARLES BRANAS *J O H N D iIULIO, JR. Emeritus Professor CE of Family Medicine and Community Health, Faculty Director, Kleinman Center for Energy Policy, School of Design Professor of Epidemiology in Biostatistics and Epidemiology, Frederic Fox Leadership Professor of Politics, Religion, and Department of Family Medicine and Community Health, Perelman Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, Perelman Civil Society; Director, Robert A. Fox Leadership Program, School of Medicine ROBERT INMAN School of Medicine Department of Political Science, School of Arts and Sciences Richard King Mellon Professor of Finance; Professor of ERICK GUERRA Business Economics and Public Policy; Professor of Real Estate, LAWRENCE BROWN GILLES DURANTON Assistant Professor, Department of City and Regional Planning, Department of Finance, The Wharton School Miers Busch Professor of Statistics, Department of Statistics, Dean’s Chair in Real Estate Professor; Chair, Department of School of Design The Wharton School Real Estate, The Wharton School ROBERTA IVERSEN MAURO GUILLEN Associate Professor; Director, Master of Science in Social Policy *DAVID BROWNLEE FERNANDO FERREIRA Dr. Felix Zandman Professor of International Management; Program, School of Social Policy & Practice Frances Shapiro-Weitzenhoffer Professor of 19th Century European Associate Professor of Real Estate and Business Economics and Director, Lauder Institute, Department of Management, Art, Department of History of Art, School of Arts and Sciences Public Policy, Department of Real Estate, The Wharton School The Wharton School 88 Penn Institute for Urban Research 2016–2017 ANNUAL REPORT 89

*JOHN JACKSON, JR. JOHN MacDONALD JANET ROTHENBERG-PACK MARK STERN Dean; Richard Perry University Professor, Penn Integrates Professor of Criminology and Sociology; Faculty Director, Professor Emerita of Business Economics and Public Policy, Professor; Kenneth L.M. Pray Professor of Social Policy Knowledge (PIK) Professor, School of Social Policy & Practice Fels Institute of Government, Department of Criminology, The Wharton School and History; Co-Director, Urban Studies Program; Principal School of Arts and Sciences Investigator, Social Impact of the Arts Project, School of DEVESH KAPUR WITOLD RYBCZYNSKI Social Policy & Practice Director, Center for the Advanced Study of India (CASI); *JANICE MADDEN Martin and Margy Meyerson Professor Emeritus of Urbanism, Professor of Political Science, Madan Lal Sobti Professor for Professor of Regional Science, Sociology, Urban Studies, and Real Department of Architecture, School of Design MARILYN JORDAN TAYLOR the Study of Contemporary India, Department of Political Estate, School of Arts and Sciences and The Wharton School Professor of Architecture and Urban Design; Former Dean, Science, School of Arts and Sciences MEGAN RYERSON School of Design CHRISTOPHER MARCINKOSKI Assistant Professor of City and Regional Planning and Electrical JOHN KEENE Associate Professor of Landscape Architecture and Urban Design, and Systems Engineering, Department of City and Regional ANNE TEITELMAN Professor Emeritus of City and Regional Planning, Department of Landscape Architecture, School of Design Planning, School of Design Patricia Bleznak Silverstein and Howard A. Silverstein Endowed Department of City and Regional Planning, School of Design Term Chair in Global Women’s Health; Associate Professor of RANDALL MASON SASWATI SARKAR Nursing, School of Nursing; Associate Professor of OB / GYN, *ALAN KELLY Associate Professor and Chair; Executive Director of PennPraxis, Professor of Electrical and Systems Engineering, Department Perelman School of Medicine Gilbert S. Kahn Dean Emeritus, Department of Pathobiology, Department of Historic Preservation; Executive Director, of Electrical and Systems Engineering, School of Engineering School of Veterinary Medicine PennPraxis, School of Design and Applied Science *DANA TOMLIN Professor of Landscape Architecture, Department of DAVID KIM ANURADHA MATHUR *ERIC SCHNEIDER Landscape Architecture, School of Design Assistant Professor of Art History, Department of History of Art, Professor, Department of Landscape Architecture, School of Design Assistant Dean and Associate Director for Academic Affairs; Adjunct School of Arts and Sciences Professor, Department of History, School of Arts and Sciences DOMENIC VITIELLO *REBECCA MAYNARD Associate Professor and Assistant Chair, Department of SHIRIKI KUMANYIKA University Trustee Professor of Education and Social Policy, LYNN SAWYER SOMMERS City and Regional Planning, School of Design Emeritus Professor of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, Department Education Policy Division, Graduate School of Education Professor Emerita of Nursing, School of Nursing of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, Perelman School of Medicine RICHARD VOITH MATTHEW McHUGH HEATHER SHARKEY Adjunct Professor of Real Estate, Department of Real Estate, *JOHN LANDIS The Independence Chair for Nursing Education; Professor of Associate Professor, Department of Near Eastern Languages The Wharton School Crossways Professor of City and Regional Planning, Nursing; Associate Director, Center for Health Outcomes and Policy and Civilizations, School of Arts and Sciences Department of City and Regional Planning, School of Design Research; Faculty Director, Nursing and Health Care Management VUKAN VUCHIC Coordinated Dual Degree Program, School of Nursing KENNETH SHROPSHIRE UPS Foundation Professor Emeritus of Transportation DAVID LEATHERBARROW David W. Hauck Professor Emeritus of Legal Studies and Business Engineering, Electrical and Systems Engineering, Professor and Chair of the Graduate Group in Architecture, AFAF MELEIS Ethics; Faculty Director, The Wharton School Sports Business School of Engineering and Applied Science Department of Architecture, School of Design Dean Emeritus and Professor of Nursing and Sociology, Initiative, The Wharton School School of Nursing SUSAN WACHTER DANIEL LEE *TONY SMITH Co-Director, Penn IUR; Sussman Professor, Professor of UPS Foundation Chair Professor; Director, GRASP HOWARD NEUKRUG Professor of Systems Engineering and Regional Science, Real Estate and Finance, The Wharton School (General Robotics Automation, Sensing, Perception) Lab, Professor of Practice in Water Leadership and Innovation, Department of Electrical and Systems Engineering, School of Engineering and Applied Sciences Department of Earth and Environmental Science, School of Arts School of Engineering and Applied Science RICHARD WELLER and Sciences Martin and Margy Meyerson Chair of Urbanism and Professor LYNN HOLLEN LEES BRIAN SPOONER and Chair of Landscape Architecture, School of Design Professor of History Emeritus; Co-Director, Joseph H. Lauder *LAURA PERNA Professor of Anthropology, Department of Anthropology, Institute of Management and International Studies, Department James S. Riepe Professor; Founding Executive Director, Penn AHEAD; School of Arts and Sciences RICHARD WESLEY of History, School of Arts and Sciences Chair, Higher Education Division, Graduate School of Education Adjunct Professor, Undergraduate Chair, Department FREDERICK STEINER of Architecture, School of Design WALTER LICHT WENDELL PRITCHETT Dean and Paley Professor, School of Design Walter H. Annenberg Professor of History, Department of Provost, University of Pennsylvania; Presidential Professor DOUGLAS WIEBE History, School of Arts and Sciences of Law and Education, Law School NANCY STEINHARDT Associate Professor of Epidemiology, Department of Biostatistics Professor of East Asian Art; Curator of Chinese Art, and Epidemiology, Perelman School of Medicine KEN LUM JOHN PUCKETT Penn Museum, Department of East Asian Languages and Professor and Chair; Director, Fine Arts Undergraduate Division, Professor of Education, Literacy, Culture, and International Civilizations, School of Arts and Sciences ROBERT YARO Department of Fine Arts, School of Design Education Division, Graduate School of Education Professor of Practice, Department of City and Regional Planning, School of Design 90 Penn Institute for Urban Research 2016–2017 ANNUAL REPORT 91

Penn IUR Scholars HARRY HOLZER DONGQUAN LI John LaFarge Jr. SJ Professor of Public Policy, Georgetown University Associate Professor, Department of Urban Planning and Management, School of Public Administration, Renmin Renowned academics from around the world investigating critical urban problems JORDAN HYATT University of China Associate Professor, Department of Criminology and Justice Studies, Drexel University FRANK ALEXANDER JANET CURRIE HUANG LING Sam Nunn Professor of Law, Emory University School of Law Henry Putnam Professor of Economics and Public Affairs, Associate Professor of Urban Planning, Chongqing University Center for Health and Well-Being, Princeton University KENNETH JACKSON Jacques Barzun Professor in History and the Social Sciences; ELIJAH ANDERSON JENS LUDWIG Director, Herbert H. Lehman Center for American History, McCormick Foundation Professor of Social Service Administration, William K. Lanman, Jr. Professor of Sociology, Yale University YONGHENG DENG Provost’s Chair, Professor of Real Estate and Finance; Director, Columbia University Law, and Public Policy, Harris School of Public Policy and School of Social Service Administration, University of Chicago TIMOTHY BEATLEY Institute of Real Estate Studies; Head, Department of Real Estate, Teresa Heinz Professor of Sustainable Communities, National University of Singapore BRIAN JACOB Department of Urban and Environmental Planning, Walter H. Annenberg Professor of Education Policy; Professor ALAN MABIN of Public Policy; Professor of Economics; Professor of Education, Professor and Research Fellow, Centre for the Advancement School of Architecture, University of Virginia MARGARET DEWAR Emeritus Professor of Urban and Regional Planning, Taubman Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy, University of Michigan of Scholarship, University of Pretoria RICHARD BERNKNOPF College of Architecture and Urban Planning, University of Michigan Director of the Science Impact Laboratory for Policy and FERDOUS JAHAN STEPHEN MALPEZZI Professor of Public Administration, University of Dhaka Professor Emeritus, James A. Graaskamp Center for Real Estate, Economics (SILPE); Research Professor, Department of REBECCA DIAMOND Economics, University of New Mexico Assistant Professor of Economics, Graduate School of Business, Wisconsin School of Business, University of Wisconsin–Madison Stanford University PAUL JARGOWSKY Fellow, Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences ALAIN BERTAUD JOHN McDONALD (CASBS), Stanford University; Professor of Public Policy; Director, Emeritus Professor of Economics and Finance, Senior Research Scholar, Marron Institute of Urbanization, NYU ZAIRE ZENIT DINZEY-FLORES Associate Professor, Latino and Hispanic Caribbean Studies Center for Urban Research and Urban Education, Rutgers University University of Illinois at Chicago NISHA BOTCHWEY and Sociology, Rutgers University Associate Professor, School of City and Regional Planning, RUCKER JOHNSON GARY McDONOGH Associate Professor, Goldman School of Public Policy, Helen Herrmann Chair and Professor, Growth and Structure Georgia Institute of Technology RICHARD FLORIDA Global Research Professor, New York University; Director of Business University of California–Berkeley of Cities Department, Bryn Mawr College PETER HENDEE BROWN and Creativity, The Martin Prosperity Institute, Rotman School of Architect, Planner, Development Consultant; Instructor, Management, University of Toronto; Founder, Creative Class Group MARK JOSEPH SIMON MOSBAH University of Minnesota Leona Bevis / Marguerite Haynam Associate Professor in Consultant, Transit and Rail Project Development and Finance, Community Development; Founding Director, National Initiative WSP USA MATTHEW FREEDMAN on Mixed-Income Communities, Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel ROBERT BUCKLEY Associate Professor, Department of Economics, University of Senior Fellow, The New School; Lecturer, NYU Abu Dhabi California–Irvine School of Applied Social Sciences, Case Western Reserve University DOWELL MYERS Professor, Sol Price School of Public Policy; Director, Population Dynamics Research Group, University of Southern California RAYMOND BURBY GEORGE GALSTER MATTHEW KAHN Professor Emeritus, City and Regional Planning, Hilberry Professor of Urban Affairs, Department of Urban Studies Professor of Economics, Spatial Sciences and Environmental University of North Carolina–Chapel Hill and Planning, Wayne State University Studies, Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences, ARTHUR NELSON University of Southern California Professor of Urban Planning and Real Estate Development, College of Architecture, Planning and Landscape Architecture, DANIEL CAMPO EDWARD GLAESER Associate Professor, School of Architecture and Planning, Fred and Eleanor Glimp Professor of Economics, Faculty of Arts KYUNG-HWAN KIM University of Arizona Morgan State University and Sciences, Harvard University Professor, School of Economics, Sogang University; former President, Korea Research Institute for Human Settlements; SUZANA PASTERNAK Immediate Vice Minister, Republic of Korea; Vice Minister, Professor of Architecture and Urbanism, University of São Paulo ANTHONY CARNEVALE RICHARD GREEN Research Professor and Director, Center on Education Professor; Director and Chair, USC Lusk Center for Real Estate; Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport (MOLIT) and the Workforce, Georgetown University Chair, Department of Policy Analysis and Real Estate, Sol Price MARINA PETERSON School of Public Policy, University of Southern California SCOTT GABRIEL KNOWLES Associate Professor of Performance Studies, School of Associate Professor of History; Interim Department Head for Interdisciplinary Arts, Ohio University ROBERT CERVERO History, Drexel University Professor, City and Regional Planning, University of SHAUN HARPER California–Berkeley Clifford and Betty Allen Chair in Urban Leadership; Executive RUTHERFORD PLATT Director, USC Race & Equity Center, Rossier School of Education, CHRISTIAN KROHN-HANSEN Professor Emeritus of Geography, University of University of Southern California Professor, Department of Social Anthropology, University of Oslo Massachusetts–Amherst 92 Penn Institute for Urban Research 2016–2017 ANNUAL REPORT 93

BO QIN LAWRENCE VALE MEAGAN EHLENZ CLAIRE ROBERTSON-CRAFT Professor, Department of Urban Planning and Management, Ford Professor of Urban Design and Planning, Massachusetts Assistant Professor, School of Geography and Urban Planning, Founder and Director, ImpactED Renmin University of China Institute of Technology Arizona State University MARY ROCCO STEPHEN RAPHAEL DOUGLAS WEBSTER THEODORE EISENMAN Post-Doctoral Researcher, Penn IUR, University of Pennsylvania Professor and James D. Marver Chair in Public Policy, Professor, School of Geographical Sciences and Urban Planning; Assistant Professor, Department of Landscape Architecture, Goldman School of Public Policy, University of California–Berkeley Chair, Global Studies Program, School of Politics and Global University of Massachusetts–Amherst EUGENIA SOUTH Studies, Arizona State University Assistant Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine, STEPHEN ROSS ALBERT HAN Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania Professor, Department of Economics, University of Connecticut MARK WILLIS Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Environmental Design, Senior Policy Fellow, Furman Center for Real Estate and University of Calgary KENNETH STEIF JESSE ROTHSTEIN Urban Policy, New York University Program Director and Lecturer, Master of Urban Spatial Professor of Public Policy and Economics; Director, JORDAN HYATT Analytics Program, School of Design, University of Pennsylvania Institute for Research on Labor and Employment, KATHLEEN WOLF Assistant Professor, Department of Criminology and Justice University of California–Berkeley Research Social Scientist, College of the Environment, School Studies, Drexel University AMBER WOODBURN of Environmental and Forest Sciences, University of Washington Assistant Professor, Department of City and Regional Planning, BRENT RYAN KIRSTEN KINZER Knowlton School of Architecture, The Ohio State University Associate Professor of Urban Design and Planning, LAURA WOLF-POWERS Assistant Professor, Department of Public and International Massachusetts Institute of Technology Associate Professor, Urban Planning and Policy, Hunter College, Affairs, University of North Carolina–Wilmington ALBERT ALEX ZEVLEV City University of New York Assistant Professor, Applied Economics, Zicklin School of Business, SASKIA SASSEN AMY LYNCH Baruch College, City University of New York Robert S. Lynd Professor of Sociology, Columbia University CHUNXIA YANG Assistant Professor, Department of Geography, Ohio University Associate Professor, Department of Architecture, Tongji University HARRIS STEINBERG Executive Director, Lindy Institute for Urban Innovation, ANTHONY YEH Drexel University Chair Professor, Department of Urban Planning and Design; Penn IUR Fellows Director of the Geographic Information Systems Research CATHERINE TUMBER Centre; Deputy Convener of the Contemporary China Studies Expert practitioners and policymakers shaping the world’s cities Research Manager, UMass Donahue Institute, Strategic Research Area, University of Hong Kong University of Massachusetts STUART ANDREASON PAUL BROPHY Senior Community and Economic Development Adviser, Principal, Brophy & Reilly, LLC Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta Penn IUR Emerging Scholars MENGKE CHEN TIM BARTIK Transportation Consultant, World Bank Senior Economist, W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research Early-career researchers at various institutions conducting urban-focused scholarship JAMES CLOAR MICHAEL BERMAN Consultant, Downtown Advisory Services ARTHUR ACOLIN CAROLINE CHEONG Principal, Michael Berman Consulting, LLC Assistant Professor, Department of Real Estate, University Assistant Professor, Department of History, JOAN CLOS of Washington University of Central Florida ANGELA GLOVER BLACKWELL Executive Director, United Nations Human Settlement Programme CEO, PolicyLink (UN-HABITAT) PETER BLAIR BENJAMIN CHRISINGER Assistant Professor, John E. Walker Department of Economics, Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, School of Medicine, RAPHAEL BOSTIC STEVE COCHRANE Clemson University Stanford University President and CEO, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta Managing Director, Moody’s Analytics

CATHERINE BRINKLEY JAMAICA CORKER MONICA BREZZI ANDREW DAVIDSON Assistant Professor, Department of Human Ecology, University Post-Doctoral Fellow, Institute for Demographic and Life Director, Technical Assessment and Monitoring, Council of Founder and President, Andrew Davidson & Co. Inc. of California–Davis Course Studies, University of Geneva Europe Development Bank

SHAHANA CHATTARAJ ANTHONY DeFUSCO Research Fellow, Department of Urban Studies and Planning, Assistant Professor, Department of Finance, Kellogg School University of Sheffield of Management, Northwestern University 94 Penn Institute for Urban Research 2016–2017 ANNUAL REPORT 95

DEREK DOUGLAS ENRIQUE PEÑALOSA Penn IUR Visiting Scholars Vice President for Civic Engagement and External Affairs, Mayor, Bogotá, Colombia University of Chicago ROLF PENDALL LIU YANG JOSÉ CALÉIA CASTRO BRIAN ENGLISH Co-Director, Metropolitan Housing and Communities Policy Department of Urban Planning, Tongji University, Shanghai, China Urban and Regional Planning, Instituto de Pesquisa e Director, Office of Program Innovation, Global Communities, Center, Urban Institute Desenvolvimento, Universidade do Vale do Paraíba, U.S. Green Buildings Council São José dos Campos, Brazil JANICE PERLMAN DAVID GEST Founder and President, The Mega-Cities Project Associate, Ballard Spahr MARTINO PESARESI Penn IUR Affiliated Doctoral Students ALAN GREENBERGER Senior Scientific Officer, Global Security and Crisis Management Distinguished Visiting Fellow, Lindy Institute for Urban Unit, Joint Research Centre Institute for the Protection and Doctoral candidates from across Penn’s campus investigating urban issues Innovation, Drexel University Security of the Citizen (IPSC)

LAURIE GOODMAN MICHAEL REPLOGLE JANE ABELL ALBERT HAN Co-Director, Housing Finance Policy Center, the Urban Institute Deputy Commissioner for Policy, New York City Graduate Group in Anthropology, School of Arts and Sciences Graduate Group in City and Regional Planning, School of Design Department of Transportation DANIEL HARTLEY OSEI ALLEYNE SA MIN HAN Graduate Group in Anthropology, School of Arts and Sciences Graduate Group in City and Regional Planning, School of Design Policy Economist, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago AROMAR REVI Director, India Institute for Human Settlements (IHHS) ANDREW HAUGHWOUT CAMERON ANGLUM KRISTA ISKANDER Graduate Group in Education, Graduate School of Education Graduate Group in City and Regional Planning, School of Design Senior Vice President and Function Head, Microeconomic JOSEPH SU Studies Function, Federal Reserve Bank of New York Inspector, Taiwan National Development Council NORA BECKER JAE MIN LEE Graduate Group in Health Care Management, The Wharton School Graduate Group in City and Regional Planning, School of Design ABHA JOSHI-GHANI JOSEPH TRACY Senior Adviser, Public Private Partnerships, The World Bank Executive Vice President and Senior Advisor to the President, Federal Reserve Bank New York AUDREY BLEWER ELAINE LEIGH Graduate Group in Epidemiology, Perelman School of Medicine Graduate Group in Education, Graduate School of Education ELIZABETH KNEEBONE Fellow, Metropolitan Policy Program, Brookings Institution MARGERY AUSTIN TURNER Senior Vice President, Program Planning and Management, LAURENT CORROYER SIRUS LIBEIRO Graduate Group in City and Regional Planning, School of Design Graduate Group in City and Regional Planning, School of Design YOLANDA KODRZYCKI Urban Institute Former Vice President and Director of the New England Public Policy Center, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston DAVID THORNBURGH ALISON CULYBA THEODORE CHAO LIM President and CEO, Committee of Seventy Graduate Group in City and Regional Planning, School of Design Graduate Group in City and Regional Planning, School of Design PAUL LEVY President and CEO, Center City District SAMEH NAGUIB WAHBA LEE ANN CUSTER JULIA McWILLIAMS Director, Social, Rural, Urban and Resilience Global Practice, Graduate Group in Art History, School of Arts and Sciences Graduate Group in Education / Anthropology, Graduate School of Education / School of Arts and Sciences JEREMY NOWAK World Bank President, J Nowak Strategy CELINA DE SA Graduate Group in Anthropology, School of Arts and Sciences SARAH ROSEN WARTELL SAMUEL OSTROFF Graduate Group in History / South Asia Studies, School of Arts MICHAEL NUTTER President, Urban Institute Former Mayor, City of Philadelphia; Senior SP2 Executive CHANDAN DEUSKAR and Sciences Graduate Group in City and Regional Planning, School of Design Fellow at Penn IUR LILY YEH Global Artist and Founder, Barefoot Artists MEGAN REED Graduate Group in Sociology / Demography, School of Arts SHEELA PATEL XIAOXIA DONG Graduate Group in City and Regional Planning, School of Design and Sciences Founder and Director, Society for Promotion of Area MARK ZANDI Resource Centers (SPARC) Chief Economist, Moody’s Analytics ELLEN DONNELLY SHASHANK SAINI Graduate Group in Criminology, School of Arts and Sciences Graduate Group in Anthropology, School of Arts and Sciences NEAL PEIRCE Chairman, Citistates Group; Founder and Editor-in-Chief, Citiscope WILLIAM JOHN FLEMING JEFFREY SHARLEIN Graduate Group in City and Regional Planning, School of Design Graduate Group in Social Welfare, School of Social Policy & Practice 96 Penn Institute for Urban Research 2016–2017 ANNUAL REPORT 97

SUDEV SHETH DANIEL SUH RICHARD RICHMAN ARI SHALAM Graduate Group in History, School of Arts and Sciences Graduate Group in City and Regional Planning, School of Design Chairman, The Richman Group, Inc. Managing Director, RWN Real Estate Partners LLC

EDWARD SMITH JOSHUA WARNER MARK ROSENBERG ROBERT STEWART Graduate Group in Education, Graduate School of Education Graduate Group in City and Regional Planning, School of Design Principal, MHR Fund Management LLC Managing Director, The JBG Companies

KAILEY SPENCER M. ZOE WARNER ROBERT ROSENFELD MICHAEL TABB Graduate Group in Education, Graduate School of Education Graduate Group in City and Regional Planning, School of Design Principal, JBG Rosenfeld Retail Managing Principal, Red Rock Global

DAVID STANEK ELIZA DAVENPORT WHITEMAN MOLLY ROUSE-TERLEVICH KENNETH TANENBAUM Graduate Group in City and Regional Planning, School of Design Graduate Group in City and Regional Planning, School of Design Community Volunteer and Political Fundraiser Vice Chairman, Kilmer Van Nostrand Co. Limited

DANIEL STUCKEY ALEXANDRA WIMBERLY ALAN SCHNITZER Graduate Group in Education, Graduate School of Education Graduate Group in Social Welfare, School of Social Policy & Practice CEO, The Travelers Companies, Inc.

Penn IUR Executive Committee Penn IUR is advised by internationally renowned urban experts. The Penn IUR Advisory Board is comprised of innovative practitioners in such fields as real estate, governance, arts and culture, urban planning, finance, DAWN BONNELL STEVEN FLUHARTY communications, and philanthropy. The Penn IUR Executive Committee is composed of deans, faculty, and Vice Provost for Research, Henry Robinson Towne Professor Dean and Thomas S. Gates, Jr. Professor of Psychology, University administrators from across Penn’s 12 schools. of Engineering and Applied Science, School of Engineering and Pharmacology, and Neuroscience, School of Arts and Sciences Applied Science (Co-Chair) MICHAEL GIBBONS Penn IUR Advisory Board CHARLES BRANAS I.W. Burnham II Professor of Investment Banking, Deputy Dean, Professor of Epidemiology in Biostatistics and Epidemiology, The Wharton School Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, Perelman School EGBERT PERRY VIRGINIA HEPNER of Medicine PAM GROSSMAN Chairman and CEO, The Integral Group, LLC (Chair) Former CEO, Woodruff Arts Center Dean and George and Diane Weiss Professor of Education, WILLIAM BURKE-WHITE Graduate School of Education PATRICK BRETT J. ROBERT HILLIER Richard Perry Professor, Professor of Law, School of Law; Managing Director, Citigroup President, J. Robert Hillier Inaugural Director, Perry World House JOAN HENDRICKS The Gilbert S. Kahn Dean, School of Veterinary Medicine MANUEL DIAZ, ESQ. TOM MILLON JEFFREY COOPER Senior Partner, Lydecker Diaz, LLC; Former Mayor of Miami, FL President and CEO, Capital Markets Cooperative Vice President, Office of Government and Community Affairs MARK ALAN HUGHES Professor of Practice, Department of City and Regional Planning; PAUL FARMER CINDY MOELIS DENNIS CULHANE Faculty Director, Kleinman Center for Energy Policy, School of Design Former CEO, American Planning Association Advisory Board Member, Crown Family Foundation Professor and Dana and Andrew Stone Chair in Social Policy; Co-Principal Investigator, Actionable Intelligence for Social Policy; JOHN JACKSON, JR. DAVID GALLO MARC MORIAL, ESQ. Director of Research, National Center on Homelessness among Dean, Richard Perry University Professor and Penn Integrates Founder and Managing Member, Valinor Management, LLC President and CEO, National Urban League Veterans, Social Policy & Practice Knowledge (PIK) Professor, Penn School of Social Policy & Practice

MICHAEL GLOSSERMAN JEREMY NOWAK JOHN DiIULIO, JR. JOHN MacDONALD Managing Partner, The JBG Companies President, J Nowak Strategy Frederic Fox Leadership Professor of Politics, Religion, and Professor of Criminology and Sociology; Faculty Director, Civil Society; Director, Robert A. Fox Leadership Program, Fels Institute of Government, Department of Criminology, RENÉE LEWIS GLOVER LAWRENCE NUSSDORF, ESQ. Department of Political Science, School of Arts and Sciences School of Arts and Sciences Chair, Board of Directors, Habitat for Humanity International Chairman and CEO, Clark Enterprises, Inc.

GILLES DURANTON WENDELL PRITCHETT ANDREW HALVORSEN PHILIP PILEVSKY Dean’s Chair in Real Estate Professor and Chair, Department of Provost, University of Pennsylvania; Presidential Professor of Law Private Investor President and CEO, Philips International Real Estate, The Wharton School and Education, Law School (Co-Chair)

EVAN HELLER PRESTON PINKETT III FREDERICK STEINER Private Real Estate Investor and Advisor President and CEO, City National Bank of New Jersey Dean and Paley Professor, School of Design 98 Penn Institute for Urban Research 2016–2017 ANNUAL REPORT 99

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Energy Efficiency in the Asia Pacific

Penn IUR will conduct a gaps analysis Looking Ahead of APEC-sponsored energy efficiency Land for Public Good in Emerging Economies Urban Fiscal Stability projects, recommending priorities for future funding by illustrating current Penn IUR will continue to explore how to create and monitor Penn IUR will continue to gaps. This work is a continuation of Penn orderly urban development in rapidly urbanizing places. One facet promote fiscal stability in IUR’s partnership with APEC economies of this initiative promotes the adoption of “RENEWW Zones” a U.S. cities through research, to promote the adoption of energy efficient decentralized, closed-loop, multipurpose model for recycling waste convenings, and expert technologies and practices across the Asia and water while producing energy and food within a designated area roundtables. In the coming Pacific by supporting knowledge transfer within or contiguous to a slum. In 2017–2018, Penn IUR and partners year, efforts will focus on and the adoption of best practices. will launch a competition to catalyze the development of pilot building transparency around Japan’s Panahome Smart City photo by RENEWW Zones. In addition to its work on RENEWW Zones, the problem of underfunded PanaHome Corporation. Penn IUR will lead a colloquium of Penn scholars researching municipal pensions. Penn IUR “Responses to Current Global Agreements: New Theories and will explore, with the support of Practices of Development in Low- and Middle-Income Nations.” a working group composed of key stakeholders and experts in the field, various facets of municipal pension obligations.

Housing Finance Reform

Penn IUR will continue to work with partners in the Federal Reserve Bank System and beyond to illuminate problems in the U.S. housing finance system and propose and advance reforms that would enhance the long- term stability of the system while promoting access and affordability. A forthcoming Economic Policy Review will Advancing the include papers focusing on New Urban Agenda these issues. Philadelphia rowhomes photo by Penn IUR will continue to Melody Joy Kramer, via Flickr. generate research in support of the New Urban Agenda and sustainable urban development. Forthcoming articles by Penn IUR Co-Director Eugénie Birch include “Inclusion and Innovation: The Many Forms of Stakeholder Rise of the City in China Engagement in Habitat III” Penn IUR will host the second in a series of conferences held at the Cityscape ( ) and “Implementing Penn Wharton China Center discussing urbanization dynamics the New Urban Agenda in the in China. This second conference will look at the financing of United States, Building on a Firm sustainable urban development in China, including looking to Informationen zur Foundation” ( international models for transferable lessons. Penn IUR will make Raumentwicklung ). papers from the fall 2016 conference on the Rise of the City in China available online. 102 Penn Institute for Urban Research 2016–2017 ANNUAL REPORT 103

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